Researching UX: User Research

Chapter 2: Choose an Approach

Once you’ve conducted your kickoff session, stakeholder interviews and desk research, you’re ready to design your research methodology.

The research cycle: design phase

Designing a research project is easy, if you’ve grasped a few core principles. In this chapter, we’re going to explain those principles, and show you a useful tool to apply them, so you can work out:

• Which research methods to use
• How to use different methods together
• How many participants to include in your research

In addition to choosing the right approach, there’s another big benefit to understanding how to design a research project. When you ...