Slides and task model diagram from our UXBristol workshop Thanks to everyone who came and participated in our UXBristol workshop today. There was a good buzz and we’ve got plenty of ideas to work through to work out our next steps as we move from the discovery stage to the alpha stage. We’ll be posting up all the outputs from the workshop soon. In... More
How does a recruiter support the participant journey? If we conclude that the journey for a participant looks something like this; People find out about opportunities to take part in research through newsletters, social media, friends telling them about it or being contacted directly. These people then get in contact with someone (researcher or recruiter) to organise taking part in the research, finding... More
Sprint 2 Sprintnotes End of sprint 2, already at the halfway point, arghhhhh! Insights have started fitting together this sprint, however, it feels like we may have bitten off more than we can chew to be ready before we present at UX Bristol. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. This discovery is more than just having something to present... More
Sprint 1 – Sprintnotes End of our first official sprint. Today we’re camped in Casa del Nic, he’s got the coffee flowing (one thing you can rely on Nic for) and I’m hiding in the shade every time we step outside. (This is not kind weather for us ginger folk). Anyway back to what we’re done this sprint, and... More
A great day researching research Today, as part of our Participant Discovery, we conducted five 30 minute telephone research interviews. Based on our agreed criteria, People for Research screened and recruited our participants, and we ran the sessions from People Thinking’s Bristol-based office. We drank quite a bit of coffee. Sometimes in the sunshine. Ben was the lead interviewer, with... More
What’s it like to be a user research participant? And how can understanding this help us improve our research and the insight we gain from it? This is what we’re working on over the next couple of months. Today is our kick-off day. We’re in Cardiff where there’s coffee and wifi. This morning we were in The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,... More