User Research Plan

These are the steps to be taken while planning to go on this research, each step here has been carefully selected as the standard but OPENLY flexible process of carrying out user research for any old or new products that will be used.

Content

Background

List of needs

1. Define Problem Space {read more}

2. What problem are we solving?

   • How did this problem get brought up (origination)?
   • Have we tried to solve this before? How?

3. Research Participants

   <aside> 🧑🏿‍💼 Stakeholders/ A Project Baseline. For example, this could include:

   • What are the business goals for this project?
   • Who are the stakeholders involved in this project?
   • What are their (stakeholders) needs and goals?
   • How do they define and measure success?
   • What business constraints do we have? </aside>

   <aside> 🧑🏿‍💼 User needs/research. For example, this could include: For example, this could include:

   • Who are our users?
   • What are their needs and goals?
   • What do we think we understand about our users? </aside>

4. What resources do we have available?

5. What constraints do we have?

6. What are the biggest concerns and risks for this project?

7. How do we define and measure success?

8. What makes [ The name of the product ] unique and how do we differentiate it?

9. What is the research process/method we will use to solve this problem? and why?

   • Methodology

10. What tools and resources do we need?

11. Objectives of the research

12. Design Wireframes + Prototypes

    This involves sharing prototypes/wireframes with participants to assess the usability and viability of a design while there is time to make the right design iterations.

13. Research Report/Synthesis