Q&A: How to set up a user research practice

Anil and Jess chat about the lessons and challenges of building a user research team from scratch, qualitative methods, and the value of talking to customers.
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Anil and Jess chat about the lessons, and challenges of building a user research team from scratch, qualitative methods, and the value of talking to customers. Check it out!

  • 0:00 Jessica Intro
  • 0:29 User Research at Balsamiq
  • 2:00 User Research in Product discovery
  • 6:32 Qualitative research over quantitative research
  • 9:12 Influence on Product decisions by User Research
  • 11:55 How to handle huge qualitative data
  • 16:08 Getting started resources User Research
  • 19:40 First step into User Research
  • 21:08 Influence team on User Research
  • 24:35 Find customers for User Research
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Peldi Guilizzoni
Peldi Guilizzoni

Founder and Product Designer @ Balsamiq

Questions or feedback? Email peldi@balsamiq.com.

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