Requirement/
Constraints
Time
⏲
7-30 Days
Difficulty
🕹
Hard
Materials
📦
Recording equipment
Incentives
People
🕴
1+ Reserachers
5+ Users
Overview
Conducting research in UX requires speaking with stakeholders to determine research resources, requirements, and constraints.
Consider
- How big is our budget?
- How much time can I devote to conducting this research?
- Can other team members (developers, product owners, QA, UX designers, UX researchers) work with me on this project?
- What will the resulting artifact be used for? (If it will be used for further experiments, it can be informal. If it will be presented to key stakeholders, it will need to be more formal and thus will require more resources.)
- What rabbit-holes should we avoid exploring?
- Are there certain things we should consider before talking to people?
- Users’ physical and cognitive abilities
- Design principles and guidelines
- The amount of space available for a feature
- Business goals
- Database constraints
- Technology constraints and requirements
- Performance requirements
- Operational requirements
- Maintainability requirements
- Reliability requirements
- Safety requirements