To help me, as a research facilitator, take care of the people I include in research I’ve been applying a few different methods. Until now it’s been little bits of practice here and there. I’ve been reflecting on how to fit them all together in a whole research project, and…

To help me, as a research facilitator, take care of the people I include in research I’ve been applying a few different methods. Until now it’s been little bits of practice here and there. I’ve been reflecting on how to fit them all together in a whole research project, and…

To help me, as a research facilitator, take care of the people I include in research I’ve been applying a few different methods. Until now it’s been little bits of practice here and there. I’ve been reflecting on how to fit them all together in a whole research project, and…

The weeknotes for this sprint are from Abbie Foxton, Content Designer and Jamie Gibson, Senior User Researcher. We will give an update across 3 areas: Progress of payment in arrears and project update implementation Design work focusing on digital outputs and funding acknowledgement questions Research into completion reports and how…

Another week, another weeknote! This week you’re hearing from me as it’s beginning to feel a lot like research. In this post you’ll be hearing about: What it’s like to do remote testing using scenario-based roleplay How we’ve gone about recruiting participants for the tests Thinking about how we run…

In the last few years I’ve seen more and more apps and services experimenting with using voice interaction, spearheaded by the likes of Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant. Soon, your voice could be as powerful as the buttons you press or the words you type. “Speech-to-Text” software covers anything where…

If a platform is intended to help people explore data and gather insights, you would often expect that platform to contain a search facility. …

Evaluating the success of the things you make is essential to building websites and platforms that people love and want to use. Every year we look at Global Forest Watch (GFW), using Google Analytics, to see what we did well and how we can deliver even more value to our…

In this post I’m going to tell you a story about the future of mapping. It starts with a casual coffee and ends with a realisation that, if we don’t heed the mistakes of the past, the latest trend in mapping might end up undermining all our hard work. The…