9 UX research methods you should know | Maze

Selecting a UX research method that fits with your research objectives, budget, team, and timeline is vital if you want to uncover relevant, actionable user insights. But how can you choose the perfect method?

Every UX research method offers valuable results and effective feedback techniques, but different methods are more suited depending on your available resources and what insights you’re looking to collect. It’s essential you hit the ground running with the best method for your project, to avoid wasting valuable time and resources—or worse, ending up with misleading data and irrelevant user feedback.

In this video, we’ll overview the top nine UX research methods to consider for your project—from card sorting to five-second tests. Here’s everything you need to know to ensure you’re picking the most effective method for your project.

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⏱️ *Video timestamps:*
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - What are UX research methods?
01:15 - User interviews
02:13 - Field studies
03:26 - Card sorting
04:30 - Tree testing
05:57 - Usability testing
07:10 - Diary studies
08:24 - Surveys
09:39 - Focus groups
11:10 - Five-second testing
12:20 - Wrap-up

💙 *About Maze:*
Maze is a continuous product discovery platform that empowers product teams to collect and consume user insights, continuously. With solutions for participant recruitment, product research, and reporting, Maze helps teams build the habit of continuous product discovery in a platform that enables everyone to run *great* research.

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[mebude]

Research = needs analysis, insights, gaps, opportunities and challeges all for improvement of user experiences. Methods/Techniques = task analysis, observations, interviews, cardsorting etc.

[hataichanokkochsena]

Thank you for your vdo, it is really useful 😊

[vaanresvaanica]

You should release more videos like this

[belabako]

Doesn't really specify how to do things, only goes trough common methodology. But how do you find people for interviews, how do you get them to talk to you, how many interviews etc. It's easy to create a video and read from a list the most common ways,