{"id":2543,"date":"2020-05-29T16:35:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevebromley.com\/blog\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2020-07-02T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:35:36","slug":"how-to-decide-the-best-user-research-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevebromley.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/29\/how-to-decide-the-best-user-research-method\/","title":{"rendered":"How to decide the best user research method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>User researchers need to put\u00a0care into making sure they pick the right research method for the decisions their product team are making.<\/p>\n<p>In my recent article for Smashing Magazine, I wrote about how\u00a0the right research method changes throughout the design and development process, and how user researchers need to be confident with a wide range of methods.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2544\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2020\/05\/research-study-double-diamond-model\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2544\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevebromley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-02-at-16.31.13-300x96.png\" alt=\"Smashing Magazine Article\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stevebromley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-02-at-16.31.13-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/www.stevebromley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-02-at-16.31.13-768x245.png 768w, https:\/\/www.stevebromley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-02-at-16.31.13-1024x326.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Read the full article on Smashing Magazine&#8217;s website<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2020\/05\/research-study-double-diamond-model\/\">The article can be read\u00a0on Smashing Magazine&#8217;s website here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extending a research team&#8217;s ability, and adding new methods is covered in my book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevebromley.com\/book\/\">Building User Research Teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my recent article for Smashing Magazine, I wrote about how the right research method changes throughout the design and development process, and how user researchers need to be confident with a wide range of methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-research","grve-entry-item","grve-blog-item"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - 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