Debrief sessions
In a few words (5 min read)
5 steps to better debriefs with your user research observers
The user interview is over. Your team has been observing it. Now it is time for a debrief discussion. How do you get everybody engaged and contributing to it? You have to brief them before the user interview. How to do it? These five ideas for pointers will lead to more engagement from observers and more valuable notes at the end.
Step by step (5–30 min read)
The UX debrief: A tale of two meetings
Learning from others’ mistakes: “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” Author’s recounts his two different debrief meetings after user research. He analyzes what went well and what did not — the process helps him come up with a list of ten guidelines for debriefing sessions.
Deep dive (30 min — few hours read)
Discussing research results with your UX team
Caitria O’Neill, previously UX researcher at Facebook, shares her experience how to organize a debriefing session with your team after research session. The article includes three suggested formats for such a meeting along with a bunch of conversation starters to help run it smoothly.
