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User Science: Product Analytics & User Research

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Thursday, March 11, 2021 • Advancing Research 2021
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User Science: Product Analytics & User Research
Speakers: Marieke McCloskey
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Summary

Want to help make better product decisions? You've got to combine qualitative human insights from user research with data analytics and experimentation. Too often research questions are "sent to the team that can answer them best." Questions about how many users do something goes to analytics, questions about which design might work better goes to user research. But what if you partnered with those other teams to answer the questions together? In this session Marieke will share how, as a qualitative UX researcher she's partnered with analysts to identify high-growth opportunities and gain a deeper understanding of users.

Key Insights

  • User science combines qualitative user research and data science to generate more impactful product insights.

  • Early collaboration between UX researchers and data teams helps reconcile conflicting insights and builds stronger shared understanding.

  • Curious and thoughtful data partners who care about the people behind the data are essential collaborators.

  • Developing a shared engagement metric like an activity score can help narrow research focus and create common language.

  • UX researchers’ storytelling and cross-functional skills position them uniquely to lead collaboration with data teams.

  • Opportunity solution trees provide a useful framework for aligning product goals, user problems, and possible solutions across teams.

  • Ethical concerns about striving for more engagement should be constantly revisited; more use is not always better.

  • Employee experience and customer experience research share many metrics and methods and can inform one another.

  • Proactive collaboration can transform narrow data or qualitative projects into comprehensive, actionable research.

  • Transparency about knowledge limits and honest communication enable trust and effective collaboration between UX and data teams.

Notable Quotes

"If you’re a person who studies people, then you’re a person who understands data."

"Typically we get stuck answering the questions we know we can answer but lose the chance to see the big picture."

"I think we as UX researchers are uniquely positioned to forge bonds with data teams because of our storytelling and cross-functional work."

"Finding out more about these most active users is a key priority this year, said our CEO at the board presentation."

"We can’t be there for every behavior after the nudge, nor do we necessarily want to be."

"Less than a third of respondents feel like they work somewhere with a clear investment in customer-driven decision making."

"You might find that spending the most time getting people interested in collaboration is where the work really happens."

"I invited Mark to a user interview — he had no idea interviewing wasn’t for him but respected that skill deeply."

"We are really good at finding problems, but the opportunity solution tree helps pick the best ones to focus on."

"Sharing your research skills broadly within your company can create unexpected opportunities to improve experiences."

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