Free Research Methods Tutorial – Beyond Usability: Learn the User Research Toolkit
Learn how to gain valuable insights about your users with this brief, high-level introduction to user research methods. Perfect for beginners and professionals alike, this course will teach you how to conduct effective interviews, surveys, and more. Save time and money by learning the right way to do user studies the first time. Ideal for product developers, entrepreneurs, and non-tech professionals looking to enhance their research skills. Start conducting high-quality research with users today!
It’s more than just usability testing! In under 1 hour, be introduced to a variety of methods you can use to help you gain insights about your users – insights that are essential to designing and building a successful app, product, technology, or idea!
PLEASE NOTE this course does not provide deep practice exercises, but instead is designed as a brief, high level introduction on how to draw from a ‘toolkit’ of top user research methods.
Have you ever thought about doing interviews, surveys, or other kinds of research with users but don’t know how to get started? Is it unclear to you which user research study method is best to use, when, and how? Don’t have a lot of time? This is the course for you!
This course walks students through a variety of popular and effective user research methods to become familiar with, called ‘the user research toolkit’. The course explains what user research is, the requirements for getting started doing a study, an outline of various study methods, how to select which study method is best to use based on a given product stage, question, or problem, and tips for how to get started doing your own study right away.
Take this course and you’ll save you time and money by learning how to get started doing your own user study the right way, the first time!
Who this course is for:
- People new to user experience research (non-experts) who wish to become more familiar with the art and science of user research
- Product development professionals and entrepreneurs who are new to user research and wish to test their product, technology, app, or idea with users
- Students, artists, or other non-tech professionals who wish to learn how to conduct high-quality research with users
