It’s been two years since I started the Integrating Research Medium publication to share articles about research repositories and increasing the product impact of customer insights. Since February 2021, the articles have evolved from longer pieces into a cumulative table of contents across a series of posts — and the…

Integrating research > Crafting arteries into planning > H. Onboarding all product people to repositories and their culture of research use > Article H2 NOTE: This earlier article series has pivoted into ‘Stop Wasting Research’ book for Rosenfeld Media > Subscribe for updates Existing research at the starting line. Product people often want fresh data on what they see as new questions, before they’ve considered how available insights could reframe and clarify their ideas.

Integrating research > Crafting arteries into planning > H. Onboarding all product people to repositories and their culture of research use > Article H1 NOTE: This earlier article series has pivoted into ‘Stop Wasting Research’ book for Rosenfeld Media > Subscribe for updates Where are insights being used? How can we grow adoption of existing research if we don’t track its application? Product teams may be consuming insights, but the ‘through line’ to resulting action is easily lost.

Integrating research > Crafting arteries into planning > G. Driving early adoption of repositories in product design processes > Article G4 NOTE: This earlier article series has pivoted into ‘Stop Wasting Research’ book for Rosenfeld Media > Subscribe for updates Bridging from point solutions to systemic needs. When teams address insights about product-wide design problems with feature-specific solutions, they can create needless variation that becomes expensive-to-fix ‘UX debt.’

Realized that we’re 1/3 of the way through my list of planned Medium articles, which I’m thinking to eventually edit into book form. Table of contents with links to completed articles below. More to come! …

Integrating research > Crafting arteries into planning > G. Driving early adoption of repositories in product design processes > Article G3 NOTE: This earlier article series has pivoted into ‘Stop Wasting Research’ book for Rosenfeld Media > Subscribe for updates What happens to all of those ideas out ahead of product road maps? As priorities narrow and shift, solutions for crucial insights may be set aside — leaving a trail of product explorations that are all too easily forgotten.

Integrating research > Crafting arteries into planning > G. Driving early adoption of repositories in product design processes > Article G2 NOTE: This earlier article series has pivoted into ‘Stop Wasting Research’ book for Rosenfeld Media > Subscribe for updates Insights needing designs to get traction. Without visualization to inspire product planning actions, even the most compelling evidence-based problem can languish in a research repository.

Integrating research > Crafting arteries into planning > G. Driving early adoption of repositories in product design processes > Article G1 NOTE: This earlier article series has pivoted into ‘Stop Wasting Research’ book for Rosenfeld Media > Subscribe for updates Off to the races. Designers taking on new projects are hungry for insights — but existing research in repositories can feel a world away from new lines of exploration.

Integrating research > Forging systemic knowledge >D. Improving upon existing research knowledge management practices > Article D1 NOTE: This earlier article series has pivoted into ‘Stop Wasting Research’ book for Rosenfeld Media > Subscribe for updates How should I think of this piece of research? How does it relate to other inputs that we could build our product plans around? Insight consumers can become confused when different insight generators, each vying for attention and impact, talk about their work in isolation. Researchers of different stripes can clarify what they offer — and start to build a more connective community — by defining common ways of describing each type of research. Communities can come together to stand on a foundation of shared language.