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Most Useful UX Research Techniques

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UX research  also called as design research. Design research is one of the crucial activities in the designing process. UX research is done to understand the user needs, prove or disprove user's assumptions, recognize user goals and needs. It improves designers thinking towards the user and validate the decisions. Hence it is really important to do UX research.  There are various techniques for doing UX research, from simplest card sorting techniques to using online tools, each method has various impacts and their results. i. Card Sorting:                        Card Sorting is one of the simplest UX research techniques, Simply writing the phrases/words on the cards and let user define their priorities, bunch them in groups, decide the sequence, etc... Card Sorting Technique  Card Sorting helps us improve activity flow, validate decisions and much more!   ii. Field Studies:      ...

UX Design Thinking Process

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Design Thinking is a design methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems. It is very crucial in tackling complex problems that are unknown or ill-defined. By understanding various stages of the design thinking process, it will be helpful to apply design thinking procedures in solving day-to-day complex problems. Design Thinking process can be understood from following Diagram. The five stages of Design Thinking, according to d.school, are as follows: i. Empathize  ii. Define iii. Ideate iv. Prototype v. Test 1. Empathizing The Problem Understanding the problems of User The initial stage of Design thinking process is trying to empathize the problem or needs of the system. In simple words this process can be explained as to assume the problems faced by the users. This process can be stated as the core part of the design thinking process, because if we cannot understand the problem the solution cannot be found. For und...