Weeknote: Kicking off a UX Research project with us
Weeknote #7
When starting a user experience (UX) research project (like any design project or research undertaking), it’s important that we agree on a clear brief. This week, we walk through the key things that we need to understand about the work that needs to be done:
Background
(Making sure the research plan is aligned with what the business needs)
- What products / services will be designed / made?
2. What brought about the need for this design project? (e.g. What business need should it solve or help?)
3. Is there anything specific that the designers / owners want to learn or understand?
Aside from the project’s business background, we also need to understand how we’ll plan the:
Range
(Making sure the operational plan is aligned with what the business can give)
- What is the realistic budget range for this project?
Aligned with the practices of “Practical Ethnography”, it’s better to scale the delivery depending on the resources of the team. It’s something we learned repeatedly by working in digital product development teams and through “Lean startup” methodology.
2. Existing information you know about your market.
3. What are the important deadlines for the project? Which is a basic thing for briefs.
When you kick off a UX research project with us, we’ll go through these basic questions along with a few others to help plan the most useful type of research for what your product or service needs.
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What we know about work, we owe — not only to our formal education and our jobs, but also to the forward-thinking designers, developers, researchers,product managers and teams who choose to share their processes and lessons (for free) on Youtube, blogs, websites and MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) tutorials. This is the spirit of designing in the open. Where design teams show their process and what they learn along the way. This is done to grow the knowledge base of the industry, and also to get feedback and dialogue going about the work.
(If you’re interested in reading more about the beauty of open design, you can read this.)
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