Universal Methods of Design

RESEARCH METHOD

74 Secondary Research

Secondary research consists of information collected and synthesized from existing data, rather than original material sourced through primary research with participants.

While human-centered design generally implies primary research with users, secondary research can also be a critical component of the project, establishing what has already been done and what hasn’t, gathering comparison data, and helping to suggest a research direction or methods that should be used in the current study. Secondary research is sometimes referred to as desk research, in contrast to primary research conducted as fieldwork, ...