UX Research

Upgrading your UX or Service Design Portfolio

Your design portfolio should do much more than list your accomplishments: it should show off your growing skillset as your career develops. Check out our tips for building amazing portfolios at every stage of your career in UX, service design or design research.

The Top UX Design and HCD Conferences of 2023

Check out our list of top-ranked conferences for UX design and research and HCD in 2023! There’s sure to be an event for every design practitioner out there.

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UX designer and UX researcher join an established product team and learn how to integrate themselves effectively.

February 06, 2023

Tips for UXers When Joining an Established Product Team

Use these practical tips to maximize your success as a UX designer or researcher joining an established product team. Get ahead with our expert guide!

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Tips for prototyping and user testing in UX design (user experience). Testing with users can be challenging, but it doesn't have to be! Read this post and learn Outwitly Inc.'s best tips for prototyping and testing with users in UX.

January 17, 2023

10 Tips for UX Prototyping and User Testing

Prototyping and user testing are key components of UX (user experience) design and research! This post contains ten tips for conducting your best prototyping and user testing sessions yet.

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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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A man is working on an empathy map in a virtual empathy mapping workshop. He is using the Miro empathy mapping template.

December 01, 2022

How to Plan and Conduct a Virtual Empathy Mapping Workshop

This post will teach you how to plan and conduct an effective virtual empathy mapping workshop! We also dive into accessibility and empathy mapping.

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Two design researchers are working together to analyze data they gathered from UX and design research.

October 21, 2022

Data Analysis for UX and Design Research

This post covers all things data analysis! We dive into the process of making sense of data, methods for analyzing data, and tips for analyzing data.

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How to conduct desk research in UX and service design. Including SWOT analysis, comparative analysis, and

October 04, 2022

How to conduct effective desk research for UX and service design?

This post looks at exactly how to conduct desk research in a UX or service design research project. We’re covering the desk research planning process as well as conducting analyses like literature review and trend analysis, comparative analysis in UX, and SWOT analysis.

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Woman is conducting desk research at her desk wearing glasses and a white shirt.

August 26, 2022

How to use desk research in UX and service design?

Today’s post digs into how to use “desk research” in UX and service design. We answer questions like when should you use it and how does it fit into the design process. We cover internal vs. external desk research and break down examples of each, like document review, literature review, and jurisdictional scans.

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A UX designer is drawing a new wireframe.

August 09, 2022

10 Must-Have Soft Skills for UX Designers

UX Design is an intricate discipline that requires practitioners to possess a variety of soft and hard skills in order to succeed. This post will break down the list of the top skills we think all UX designers should have in 2022! Plus, a comprehensive list of our favourite design & prototyping tools.

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May 06, 2022

Your Guide to HCD, UX Design, and Related Disciplines.

This post provides easy-to-understand explanations and examples of UX/UI design, HCD, design/UX research, service design, and product design. Plus, see how Outwitly can help your organization through our service offerings!

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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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January 07, 2022

UX Research: Usability Testing Tools & Process

In the second part of our blog series on user testing, we write about all things usability testing! Usability tests provide us with insight into how users interact with a product or service before it’s launched into the real world. Usability tests allow us to improve and make critical changes to enhance user experience, ultimately making for a more successful launch! Not testing with users means missing out on the chance to better serve your users and customers. This post will cover things to consider when conducting usability testing, moderated vs. unmoderated participant interaction, remote testing and our favourite tools, consent and test protocol, and analyzing data and reporting on usability test findings.

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