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4 user research initiatives that explore how we can we build on the Kainos Green Software Commitment to promote sustainability in this…

What does a typical day in the life of a user researcher look like? That’s a good question!

The importance of pen and paper to user experience design (UX)

Leveraging Qualtrics, together with good survey design to increase customer feedback

In this post I will share my top 5 learnings on what bouldering has taught me about user research and hopefully encourage people to try it.

Navigating the shift to product-based operating models in digital transformations

I’ve been a User Researcher for over six years. I have found assumptions workshops a useful way to discuss problem statements.

By Stefan Nicolaou and Abigail B Vint

In June 2022, a UK government policy paper on its digital future calls out legacy IT as a barrier to transformation, ‘We need to deal with…

The GDS Standard is 11 years old. A lot has happened since 2013 both in terms of technological advancements and in terms of our…

I’m Jordan Cupples, a UX design trainee at Kainos. I also have dyslexia. In this blog, I explain how being dyslexic has led me to UX…

Free-listing is a fascinating but under-used research method that allows us to explore the mental models and cultural knowledge of groups…

What happened?

With over a decade of academic and NHS research experience as a health psychologist, moving to work as a digital health user researcher in…

by Faye Koukia-Koutelaki, User Research Consultant

by Faye Koukia-Koutelaki, User Research Consultant

What the terms ‘content design’ and ‘UX writing’ reveal about the skills, processes and development of the discipline.

Here’s 5 great methods for testing content. We’ll take you through what they are, how to use them and why they’re useful.

Hey there! I’m Elmer, and for the past 18 months, I’ve been immersed in UK Government Digital Service (GDS) projects through Kainos. Let me…

This blog is the second in a series where we’ll explore how our existing skills as academics have become valuable assets for us as user…

(Originally posted on LinkedIn.)

Five months ago, I started work as a senior user researcher at Kainos. I arrived here from academia, via a short stint in the commercial…

Recently I had a conversation with my mother, who is in her mid-80s. She told me an experience of hers that was a very timely reminder to…

Recently I have been thinking about different research methods, their purposes and how often we actually get to use different research…