Diary Studies
Listed inDiary StudiesDiscovery Researchon
Capturing behaviour over weeks rather than in a session, and what it costs to keep participants going.
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Getting evidence about real users before a single frame exists — the interviews, observation, and behavioural data the rest of the work rests on.
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Listed inDiary StudiesDiscovery Researchon
Capturing behaviour over weeks rather than in a session, and what it costs to keep participants going.
Listed inSession RecordingsDiscovery Researchon
Watching real sessions to find the friction analytics only shows you the shape of.
Listed inResearch Ethics & ConsentDiscovery Researchon
Informed consent, data minimisation, and handling recordings of people who trusted you with them.
Listed inContextual InquiryDiscovery Researchon
Watching the work happen where it happens — the fastest way to find the workaround nobody mentions.
Listed inHeatmapsDiscovery Researchon
Click, scroll, and attention maps — genuinely useful for generating hypotheses, dangerous as evidence.
Listed inRecruiting ParticipantsDiscovery Researchon
Screeners, incentives, and the sampling errors that make a well-run study answer the wrong question.
Listed inSurveysDiscovery Researchon
What a survey can and cannot tell you, sane question design, and the response bias you inherit for free.
Listed inQualitative vs QuantitativeDiscovery Researchon
Which questions each method can answer, and why 'how many' and 'why' need different studies.
Listed inCompetitive ResearchDiscovery Researchon
Studying how others solved it without inheriting their mistakes or their constraints.
Listed inUser InterviewsDiscovery Researchon
Asking about what people did rather than what they would do, and the questions that quietly plant the answer.
Listed inEthnographic ResearchDiscovery Researchon
Immersion over interrogation: understanding the environment, the incentives, and the social rules around the task.
Listed inAnalytics as ResearchDiscovery Researchon
Reading behavioural data as a research input: what it reliably reports, and where it silently misleads.