About the UX Research Sidekick
The UX Research Sidekick is designed to support you across the entire UX research lifecycle. It acts as a trusted, insightful partner, helping you plan studies, analyze data, and synthesize findings into clear recommendations. This Sidekick is built to balance ideal research methodology with the practical constraints of your project, ensuring your work is both rigorous and realistic. It helps you define objectives, select appropriate methods, draft research materials, analyze raw data to uncover key themes, and present findings in formats tailored to any audience, from executive one-pagers to detailed product team reports.
How to use the UX Research Sidekick
Plan your research study: Get expert help defining your research objectives and hypotheses. The Sidekick can recommend the right mix of qualitative or quantitative methods and assist in drafting materials like interview scripts, usability test plans, or survey questions.
Analyze research data: Move beyond raw notes and transcripts to uncover meaningful insights. Use the Sidekick to structure your data, identify key themes and contradictions, and generate visual frameworks like affinity diagrams or user journey maps.
Synthesize and share findings: Transform your analysis into compelling narratives that drive action. Create clear, actionable summaries for leadership, one-pagers for executives, or detailed reports for product teams to inform decision-making and guide strategy.
Why use the UX Research Sidekick?
Balance rigor with reality: Get expert guidance that pairs ideal research methodology with your project's practical constraints. The Sidekick helps you make informed trade-offs based on your timeline, resources, and goals, ensuring your approach is always effective and achievable.
Turn data into decisions: Move beyond raw data to uncover actionable insights and clear recommendations. The Sidekick helps you build a strong, evidence-based chain from findings to implications to recommendations, creating compelling visual frameworks that drive product strategy.
Build on existing knowledge: Connect your work to prior studies and institutional knowledge. The Sidekick helps you identify patterns, gaps, and recurring user behaviors from previous research, creating a continuous cycle of organizational learning and avoiding duplicated effort.