Translating deep user insights into action through proven research methods and strategic skills.
Strategic Focus & Leadership
UX Strategy & Research Integration: Defining and embedding research insights into overall product and user experience strategy.
Cross-Disciplinary Innovation: Facilitating collaboration across teams to generate novel solutions grounded in user needs.
Human-Centered Design & Design Thinking: Championing and implementing user-centered principles throughout the product lifecycle.
New Product Strategy: Utilizing research to identify opportunities and inform the strategy for new market entries.
Understanding Users Deeply: Expertise in uncovering core user motivations, wants, needs, and digital behaviors to inform design.
Consumer Experience Vision: Shaping compelling end-to-end consumer journeys based on research.
Mentorship & Education: Guiding teams and stakeholders in research methodologies and best practices.
User Advocacy: Ensuring the user's voice is represented and prioritized in decision-making.
Customer Insights Ownership and Advocate: Ensuring relevant customer understanding informs product and design decisions in fast-paced environments.
User Research Practice (process and execution)
RESEARCH PLANNING AND DESIGN
Defining Research Objectives, Purpose & Goals
Method Selection & Identification
Experimental Design
Success Criteria & Metrics Definition
User Profile & Persona Development
Participant Recruitment Strategy & Screening
Secondary (Desk) Research
Competitive & Comparative Analysis (including SWOT)
ANALYSIS, SYNTHESIS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Distillation of Research Outcomes
Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analysis
Customer Feedback Analysis
In-Market Analytics Analysis (collaborating with BI/Data Science)
Prototype Analysis
Customer Journey & Experience Mapping
Developing Actionable Recommendations for diverse disciplines
Communication Strategy & Insights Storytelling
Presentation Design & Infographics
RESEARCH EXECUTION AND FACILITATION
Interview Facilitation (Individual interviews, Focus groups)
Field Studies (IHUTs, customer visits, direct observation, ethnography, contextual inquiry)
Diary Studies
Usability Studies (testing, baseline & benchmark)
Concept Testing
Surveys (mixed method integration and large quant)
Card Sorting
Participatory Design Workshops
Hardware Testing
OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
UXR Roadmaps & Quarterly Deliverables
People Management
Vendor Management & Communications
Quarterly Budgeting & Resource Planning
Developing Research Templates and Protocols
Building & Maintaining Knowledge Archives
Lean UX Integration
Establishing Self-led Research Programs (e.g., for usability and beta testing)
Technical & Domain Acumen
TECHNOLOGIES
Mobile Applications (Android/iOS)
Websites & Web Applications
Smart Devices (Fire TV & Echo Show)
Voice UI / LLM
AI / Research Sciences Collaboration
IoT / BLE Connected Devices
Desktop Applications
Product Sensor Feedback Integration & Gestural Interactions
INDUSTRIES
Consumer Technology & Experiences
Consumer Health Products & Healthcare
Domestic Home Products
Cyber Security
Architecture & Workplace Environments
Urban Planning
Manufacturing
Marketing
Education
Think Tanks
Process Contributions & Collaboration Styles
Agile & Scrum Environments
Lean Start-up Methodologies
Workshop Facilitation
Hack-a-thons
Story Mapping
Proposal Development
Design-Build Project Delivery
International Research Projects