Communicating User Research Findings

“No one reads reports!”
“PowerPoint must die!”
“Conveying user research findings so people can understand them, believe them, and know how to act on your recommendations can be challenging.”
We’ve all read monotonous reports and struggled to remain awake during boring presentations, but must all deliverables be interminably dull? Conveying user research findings so people can understand them, believe them, and know how to act on your recommendations can be challenging. And providing enough detail without boring your audience is a difficult balance. But there are some best practices in communicating user research findings that can make them more effective—and even entertaining.

http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2012/02/communicating-user-research-findings.php

How to Conduct User Observations

Observing users interacting with a product can be a great way to understand the usability of a product and to some extent the overall user experience. Conducting observations is relatively easy as it doesn’t require a huge amount of training and it can be relatively fast – depending on the sample size of users you intend to observe.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/how-to-conduct-user-observations

Better User Research Through Surveys

UX Mastery

Online surveys are commonly used by marketers, product managers, strategists and others to gather feedback. You’ve probably participated in some of these surveys and I’m sure you’ve noticed that they’re often executed poorly.

http://uxmastery.com/better-user-research-through-surveys/

15 useful user feedback questions for online surveys

UX For The Masses

Online surveys are a quick and incredibly useful tool for gathering all sorts of user feedback. In next to no time you can whip something up using one of the many online survey tools out there (I particularly recommend SurveyGizmo) and start gathering feedback from real users. Often implementing the survey is the easy bit, it’s designing the thing that’s the tricky part as you won’t get the feedback you’re after if you don’t ask the right questions. In this article I outline 15 useful user feedback questions for online surveys for you to pick and choose from.
http://www.uxforthemasses.com/online-survey-questions/

Writing Surveys That Work

Mozilla UX

Writing surveys seems simple because of all the free online tools that exist, but writing one that actually answers the question you set out to answer – that is harder than it looks. Surveys are not questionnaires!  A questionnaire is the tool that is used to talk to a sample of the population.  A survey is a representative sample of that population.
https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/10/writing-surveys-that-work/

Invision APP

I spoke with the educational coordinator at Invision and they sent me this link and signup code to get a student account with 3 free projects. You have to sign up with your NYCCT email account and it is good until 6 months after you graduate.
If you already have an account let me know and I can put you in contact with Invision’s educational coordinator.

Check out their Student Showcase: http://blog.invisionapp.com/design-teachers-approach-design/

Check out their Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627625967509518/

The world’s leading design collaboration platform

We help companies of all sizes unlock the power of design-driven product development. That’s why teams at Evernote, Adobe, Airbnb, Salesforce, and many more fire up InVision every day.

InVision gives teams the freedom to design, review, and user test products—all without a single line of code. With intuitive tools for prototyping, task management, and version control, it’s your entire design process, all in one place.

http://www.invisionapp.com/education-signup

Signup Code: 56-73-13-19

Competitor Analysis

Some starting questions for your Competitor Analysis.

Who are your competitors?

What are their features?

How do their features compare to yours?

Adobe Investor Presentation

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/investor-relations/PDFs/ADBE-Investor-Presentation-June2015.pdf

Main Adobe Investor Relations Website

http://www.adobe.com/investor-relations.html

Main Adobe Website

http://www.adobe.com