Guerrilla user research, which is conducting fast and low-cost user testing, usability testing, or user interviews with random participants, is a valuable tool in every digital product designer’s toolbox. In this article, I’ll lay out a few tips to maximize your research when you are under time and resource constraints.
If you do not have the time or an extensive budget to set up screener surveys, coordinate and physically set up a research environment, or create a test on virtual usability testing service, guerrilla user research may meet your needs. And let’s be honest with ourselves: we should not be conducting frequent “user research” with fellow designers, engineers on your team, or co-workers. …
When designing for the real world, the key is to remember that we are different on many levels. You are not your product’s end user. We all have different philosophical, spiritual, and religious beliefs. We come from different communities, cities, regions, and countries. We all speak, write, and read in different languages, and in different dialects.
Therefore, as a professional product or UX designer, it’s important to design inclusively for all. …
Brian Beavers + Christina Chang
Stash’s employee and customer base have been on a rocket ship with no signs of slowing down. As our design, research, and marketing team have continued to grow at Stash, we realized that we needed a new way of getting eyeballs on our work and getting timely critiques.
Like many product design teams, we use a combination of Sketch + Zeplin for design, feedback, and specs for engineering. But shoehorning feedback into Zeplin seemed like a misuse of the tool to us. We take vacations and sick days. We are often heads down busy with our own tracks of work on our squads. We’re in meetings or discussions throughout the building and can miss important threads on Slack or Zeplin. …
Brian Beavers + Christina Chang
Stash’s employee and customer base have been on a rocket ship with no signs of slowing down. As our design, research, and marketing team have continued to grow at Stash, we realized that we needed a new way of getting eyeballs on our work and getting timely critiques.
Like many product design teams, we use a combination of Sketch + Zeplin for design, feedback, and specs for engineering. But shoehorning feedback into Zeplin seemed like a misuse of the tool to us. We take vacations and sick days. We are often heads down busy with our own tracks of work on our squads. We’re in meetings or discussions throughout the building and can miss important threads on Slack or Zeplin. …
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