Chrissie BrodiganIdentifying Causal Effects with Experiments“No causation without manipulation.” –Paul Holland6 min read·Mar 3, 2016----
Chrissie BrodiganThink Aloud Sneak AttackThere’s an infamous story and that often comes up in product debates to help justify not listening or reacting to customer requests. It’s…3 min read·Mar 1, 2016----
Chrissie Brodigan10 Lessons: Building GitHub’s Early User Experience Research PracticeThe past few days I’ve been thinking a lot about what a team of two was able to accomplish in three years at GitHub, spanning some pretty…4 min read·Feb 16, 2016----
Chrissie BrodiganLongitudinal StudiesWe recently launched the second wave of a study internally named, The New Account Creator Longitudinal Study or “Project NAC.” We’ve been…5 min read·Jan 20, 2016----
Chrissie BrodiganOpen Text Analysis: Bigrams, Word Clouds, The Octocat’s Party HouseI truly hate using word clouds to present open text data, which is a research lovers pot of gold. Word clouds –well, I feel like they…6 min read·Jan 18, 2016----
Chrissie BrodiganProduct Pricing, Attitudinal Data, & GitHub“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory7 min read·Jan 16, 2016----
Chrissie BrodiganWhat’s Obvious vs. What’s InterestingWith research we’re always on the lookout for patterns–some are obvious, but the ones we care most about are interesting. However, obvious…3 min read·Jan 13, 2016----
Chrissie BrodiganGitHub Transformers: Tools & WorkflowsGitHub began as a tool for hobbyists and evolved with organizations and on-premise enterprise products into a tool for professionals.13 min read·Jan 3, 2016----
Chrissie BrodiganNew Year, New User JourneysMost web services experience seasonal lift in new user sign-ups and traffic. This is especially true in January when people return to work…10 min read·Jan 1, 2016----
Chrissie Brodigan365 Project: Listening to inactive usersQ: If we could have done one thing to improve your experience what would it be?10 min read·Dec 30, 2015----
