The Full-Stack Researcher
Guides, Case Studies, & Actionable Advice for Mixed-Methods User Research
Does every startup need to solve a problem?
The three traits of a problem worth building a startup on: painful, frequent, and replicable.
How to find free participants for your survey
No budget for buying participants? Three free ways to find people to take your survey: your community, public promotion, and personal direct outreach.
The Innovation Fallacy: Understanding When Startups Shouldn't Innovate.
Innovating on everything wastes time and confuses users. Innovate only on your point of differentiation and copy the well-worn path for the rest.
Customer Problem Stack Ranking: How Stripe Validates New Product Ideas
Shreyas Doshi named Customer Problem Stack Ranking at Stripe in May 2020. It ranks your idea against every other problem your customers face. Seven steps, a worked example, and what happened when we ran it on ourselves.
4 Prioritization Techniques For Deciding What To Build
RICE, MoSCoW, Kano and Customer Problem Stack Ranking, four ways to cut through conflicting input and decide what to build next.
Mixed methods is the most important research skillset of the 2020s
Product-led growth put research at the centre of strategy. The researchers who thrive this decade are the ones fluent in both qualitative and quantitative work.
Ultimate Guide to MaxDiff Analysis: Examples, Methods, Tools
MaxDiff measures the priorities of a group of people by letting them choose the best and worst option from a set of statements using choice-based voting, mathematics and online surveys.
A Beginner’s Guide to Thematic Analysis
Thematic analysis turns a mountain of transcripts and open-ended answers into themes. What it is, the steps, a real example, and when a lighter method fits better.
How to do Mixed Methods Research without being a Quant Expert
You don't need a statistics PhD. The handful of core quant skills a qualitative UX researcher needs to become a mixed methods researcher, and how to learn them.
What is Mixed Methods User Research? A Definition and Examples
Qualitative tells you why, quantitative tells you how many. Mixed methods research combines both. Here are the three designs and when to use each.
Feed the Heroes gets closer to their donors core values using OpinionX
After passing €1m in donations only 3 months after launching, FTH used OpinionX to deepen their understanding of their donorbase.