User & Market Research

Building a great website is more than just good colors and photography. And fixing the design alone doesn’t make for a good website.

Keyword research has become part of any healthy content strategy.

Remote usability testing is a great way to check how useful your website or product is and measure how easy it is to use. And almost anyone can do it.

How do you document design requirements in a way that lays the foundation for a project's success? Presentation modeling orients stakeholders toward needs and priorities, resulting in better feedback.

What does a design process look like when your audience includes almost anyone and your stakeholders are the entire community of a large, open-source project?

Mike and Matt talk with the team that helped implement content strategy on Georgia.gov.

As pressure to create leaner timelines mounts, how do we continue to deliver great work that requires listening to user feedback?

Marissa relates some of her favorite Deep Thoughts to intermediate lessons about the user experience project process.

Usability testing doesn't have to be costly or time-consuming. Invision App and ScreenFlow have helped us make gathering feedback an inexpensive, user-friendly and fast process.

Jen takes us behind the scenes of the This Old House redesign, why navigation excites her, and how Wordpress led her into UX design.