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E20 · Organising content with Card Sorting (Research essentials #4)

When working out how to organise things and what to call them, Card Sorting offers an easy and rapid research method to ensure that what seems obvious to you is also obvious to your users.

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tags: card sorting, Research, User interviews, User testing, Taxonomies, Information Architecture, UX, Content
categories: Research, Startup
Sunday 10.11.20
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Ep 17 - User research essentials for anyone #1: Start here

Every successful product is built around a genuine human need. But you don't need to have an experienced researcher by your side to uncover user insights and guide your human-centred product development. Anyone on a team should know the basics and can even lead successful research sessions. All you need is a few basics to get going.

In this episode, I'll share the few methods that cover the majority of my research needs, and a few guidelines that apply to almost all of them. Get ready and dive in!

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tags: User testing, usability testing, card sorting, surveys, analytics, focus groups, Ethnography, Bias, User interviews, Product Management
categories: Research, Strategy
Sunday 08.30.20
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

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