Design Methods

Proto Persona Meaning, Template & Example

A proto persona is a great design tool that your team and stakeholders can use to better understand your organization’s users or customers, and to inform smart and timely feature, product, or service decisions. Read more and access proto persona templates/examples in this latest blog post!

How to Run an Empathy Mapping Workshop

Running an empathy map workshop? Look no further. This post will teach you to run a workshop that yields useful, actionable empathy maps for your UX or service design project. Inspire empathy in your stakeholders and influence product decision-makers in all the right ways.

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Designers and researchers running a workshop "How Might We" statements and pointing at sticky nots on a whiteboard.

November 21, 2024

“How Might We” Statement Examples for Design Thinking

It’s easy to start a statement with “How might we…” but framing it properly can make the difference between a groundbreaking brainstorm and a list of half-baked solutions. Read on as we explore “How Might We” statement examples to inspire your design thinking and co-design workshops.

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A woman smiling and building a great UX case study at her laptop

September 19, 2024

Your Guide to UX Case Studies: Write, Present & Master Them

Case studies are crucial to furthering your career in UX and UI. Whether you’re looking for work or helping a company land new clients, your case studies need to stand out from the pack. That’s why we’ve put together the ultimate case study guide.

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July 18, 2024

Miro’s New Features and Updates: AI, Intelligent Canvas, and Innovative Workflows

Today’s blog post breaks down Miro’s newest updates, Intelligent Canvas, Composable Workflows, and AI, and shares how these features will improve your workflow and enhance team collaboration.

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A group UX designers and researchers in an office space collaborating on a project together.

May 23, 2024

How to Develop a Risk Mitigation Strategy for Design Research

As designers and researchers, we are pros at thinking ahead— and that means looking ahead to any upcoming project risks. In today’s post, you’ll learn how to proactively plan for project risks using a risk mitigation strategy and gain insight into common risks in UX and design research.

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December 16, 2022

Your Guide to Qualitative UX and Design Research Methods

At Outwitly, UX and design research is what we do best! This post covers our three qualitative research methods that you can use for your next project: in-depth interviews, observations and diary studies.

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Adopting a beginner's mindset in UX, design thinking, and human centered design.

September 16, 2022

Why you need to adopt design thinking’s “beginner’s mindset”

This post dives into what it means to have a beginner’s mindset, how to get experts like stakeholders comfortable with adopting a beginner’s mindset, and our favourite activities for inspiring this kind of thinking!

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A group of four UX, HCD, and service design professionals are gathered around their desk working within Agile methodology.

June 13, 2022

How to better integrate Agile with HCD?

This post covers Agile methodology and its relationship with human-centered design. We break down the common challenges designers face with Agile and provide recommendations for better integrating Agile with UX and service design.

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February 04, 2022

Design Research: Methods, Practices, and Pitfalls

This post is a “roundup” of our past posts on the topic of design research. We dive into the methods, practices, and pitfalls associated with one of our all-time favourite topics. You’ll learn how to plan and prepare for discovery research, how to get the most out of your research, why you should stay away from focus groups, and a few research methods we love, like diary studies and in-depth interviews.

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January 21, 2022

Top UX Research Tips for Better Usability Test Reports

In part three of our series on user testing, we’re talking about our top tips for better usability test reports and UX research! If you’ve conducted a few usability tests with real users and are looking for new ways to analyze data and improve your reporting, you’re in the right place! We’ll cover the three data points you don’t want to forget to collect, our favourite ways to analyze data from a usability test, and five tips to use for your next report.

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October 01, 2021

UX Research: How to plan and prepare for discovery research?

There is a ton of planning that goes into conducting user research to understand the needs, challenges, and motivations, of your user or customer. If you are just starting out on the journey of UX research, feeling a little overwhelmed by the process, and wondering how to set up and plan a research project, this blog post is for you!

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April 01, 2021

Remote Mobile Usability Testing and Data Privacy

Usability testing in a remote world presents its own benefits and challenges. We remote mobile usability testing and UX research best practices and tools, as well as data security, ethics, and inclusivity.

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