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Nova: A Modern Publication for the Sexy Nerd

  • Customer Experience, Design, Product design, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Process notes of creating an online magazine for a female professional.

Article by Jennifer ODonnell
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Nova: A Modern Publication for the Sexy Nerd
  • The article covers the creation of an online magazine,“NOVA” — a publication focused on spicing up the life of female professionals.
  • The author shares process notes and perspective from each of the project phases:
    • Research (qualitative research, competitor analysis, interviews, quantitate research)
    • Card Sorting
    • LOW-FI (wire framing)
    • MID-FI (edits)
    • Branding (colors, font, voice&tone, mood board)
    • Hi-Fi
  • Lessons and learnings from the project:
    • Mind spacing, especially margins
    • Balance between creativity and function in every design
    • Know when enough is enough
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NOVA: A Modern Publication for the Sexy Nerd | Jennifer O’Donnell

How To Research So PMs Will Listen

  • Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Employee Experience, Psychology and Human Behavior, Remote Research, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Building effective partnerships with PMs requires stepping outside of any frustration, ego, or resentment at being ignored, and building empathy. How to do that? Here is what we’re going to find out.

Article by Lindsey Wallace
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How To Research So PMs Will Listen
  • PMs are the most critical audiences for research, they are also often the hardest to convince, and the source of many of researchers’ frustrations and heartaches.
  • Building effective partnerships with PMs requires stepping outside of any frustration, ego, or resentment at being ignored, and building empathy.
  • The author shares:
    • Some practices of working with PMs
    • Questions to ask PMs and stakeholders
  • The baseline expectation setting:
    • Level set
    • Set guardrails based on your role
    • Ask for candid feedback and engagement
    • No surprises
  • When researchers and PMs are in conflict or in separate silos, neither role gets the value of the other, but strong researcher-pm partnerships can be game-changing for extending the strategic impact and influence of both design and research.
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UX Case Study: Encouraging Secondary Research in Design

  • Research Tools and Software

Clear processes for secondary research are rare. Some ideas on how to improve the way designers collect and document existing knowledge.

Article by Tudor Teisanu
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UX Case Study: Encouraging Secondary Research in Design
  • Teisanu Tudor started an exploration of around 47 designers, managers, and researchers in order to figure out how they could enrich secondary research.
  • There are a few designers author talked to who run exploratory research studies before sketching out any ideas.
  • Before diving into visual work, there are plenty of sources that could (and should) provide crucial insights for building a foundation.
  • Equipped with feedback from that 47 people, Teisanu Tudor explores the idea of designing a refined aggregator to help product designers obtain a diverse and comprehensive range of data while conducting the secondary research.
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User stories vs use cases: how they stack up

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Project Management, Prototypes, Requirements and Specifications, Research Tools and Software, Rich Internet applications, User Acceptance Testing

Just what are the differences between user stories and use cases? Don’t they have the same goals? But, user stories and use cases are not quite the same.

Article by Patrick Joseph Downs, Justinmind
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Think Fast, Create Fast, Innovate Fast: A Lightning Round on Rapid Ideation

  • Content and Copy, Content Strategy, Research Tools and Software, Simplicity, Storytelling

The more ideas and solutions you generate, the better chance you have of seeing your highest-impact ones make it to market.

Article by Pete Sena
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Two-Minute Interviews

  • Direct Observation Research, Interviews, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Simplicity, User Reported Feedback

Two-minute surveys are a quick and flexible tool you can use to include all of your business users and all of your market in your user research.

Article by Dmitri Khanine
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