Good UX design requires knowing what your users are doing and thinking. You need to make decisions based on evidence not guesswork.
This guide explains 24 methods to gather evidence and ranks them by how often to use them in your design process. Particularly for those of you designing at startups or on a budget.
Get to grips with quick tests you can do to get early feedback on your designs.
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A rundown of three ways you can do great user testing when your users are remote from you.
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How to learn from website analytics data such as page views, bounce rate, and average time on page.
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Understand how many users are reaching your website goals and where the rest are dropping off.
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The tricks to doing quick user tests on the fly to improve your prototypes.
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Sometimes you need to get out there and see how your users behave in the wild.
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Build your own dashboard to track important metrics and get an early warning when things go wrong.
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How to gather and assess irregular customer feedback from email and phone calls.
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Speaking to customers is a great way to properly understand their behaviours and motives.
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How to write surveys that will help you understand your audience (and don't just produce meaningless stats).
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See exactly how real users engage with your website – including where they dwell on the page and where they click.
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What to think about when using split tests in your UX design process and the challenges they bring.
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Tips and advice for using live chat on your website and how to analyse the results to understand what users want.
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What you can learn by looking at mouse movement, scroll/swipe, and click/tap heatmaps.
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Your clients or stakeholders often have great knowledge about their audience, and are a useful resource to tap into.
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Use this data to build a picture of who your users are and where they're visiting from.
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How to get design inspiration from your competitors (without just ripping off one of them).
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Learn about this classic method for getting customer feedback, and the pitfalls to avoid.
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Learn how activity on social channels can provide genuine user feedback (and avoid empty vanity metrics).
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How to approach and interpret this classic summary of who your users are.
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Here's what to consider when following advice from other company's blogs and articles.
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Not something you may think of as a piece of evidence but certainly something that will influence you. Learn how to incorporate this feedback.
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What you should know about hiring SEO, CRO, and UX experts to help improve your product.
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This is a classic method for understanding user sentiment, here's what you need to know to incoporate it in your design research.
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