…some more libre ethnography videos under CC Licenses. this means you can use them for your teaching and even cut them, (re-) dub them, remix them with other videos for comparison, whatever – as long as you show a credit to the creator and a link to the license.
Image: Writing exercise
A colleague and I organized a small barcamp-like meetup for qualitative researchers at the Bauhaus University Weimar. We met on the 21st of May 2015 at the neudeli, the Bauhaus University’s startup incubator (»Gründerwerkstatt«).
We held several sessions run by participants. I’ll give a brief …
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A collection of free-as-in-freedom resources for user research.
Each resource has a brief description, a source and the license. However, to be sure you should look up the license on the source (this is what matters).
A nice collection of possible questions …
read more ...TL;DR: beginners in user need research have trouble dealing with the openness of possible outcomes in research.
User need research is used for discovering the motivations, activities and problems of potential users. For this, the researcher often has a conversation (»Interview«) with participants and asks them questions about their …
read more ...In my posts on Visual Interviews and Visual analysis
I had only a brief section on analysis. It was fairly conventional: search for patterns and list them as text.
However I thought that it might be easier and more accessible (for you and your peers) to keep the analysis in …
read more ...⚠ Exploratory Research ahead
This is a little study that explores Designer’s attitudes to steps in the design process
The idea was based on the observation that some steps are part of almost any design process while some are left out. So I wanted some data on this. In addition …
read more ...In a previous blogpost I demonstrated some methods for mapping social relations as well as emotions/liked-and-less-liked-parts-of-a-process. In this blogpost, I will show some ideas on documenting the processes with your participants by writing step-by-step instructions together.
I’m not the first one to try something this, for example CARD …
read more ...I think that teaching-by-examples is an awesome and empowering method. Instead of a universal principle given by some authority a way to solve a problem is suggested.
Example for an Example (meta, yey!):
While the interface design principle »Visibility of the system
status« may
be a great advice for interface …
a beginner friendly method for user need research
While interviews and observations are popular methods for data gathering they can be hard to handle for beginners: Asking open questions, avoiding influences and managing the flow is hard. Graphical templates on which the reserach participant sketches or writes can help the …
read more ...My Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs is online.
The text is aimed at students and professionals who want to learn about qualitative user research. It is written in a hands-on manner and the described methods factor in that you might neither have a big team nor a big …
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