Run Usability Tests

Write the tasks around the decision you need, then the moderator script. Practice it once. Open questions, not a tour of the prototype.

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  Usability Test PlanCreate a comprehensive usability test plan with scenarios, tasks, and success metrics.
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  Usability Test Script & Moderator GuideCreate detailed test scripts and moderator guides for running usability test sessions with specific tasks, questions, and facilitation tips.

Find people who do this work, not coworkers. Screen for the task, not for enthusiasm.

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  User Research Recruitment PlanCreate participant criteria and recruitment materials for user research studies.
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  Participant Screener Survey BuilderDraft a recruitment screener with intro copy, behavioral and qualifying items, explicit disqualifiers, routing notes, and recruiter guidance. Goes deeper than a high-level recruitment plan.
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  Participant Consent & Session CommsPlain-language consent and logistics: recording, data use, how to stop, incentive, and calendar copy. Variants for interviews, usability tests, surveys, and diaries.

Sit with them. After each session, turn the recording into a debrief so synthesis is clustering, not reconstructing.

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  Session Debrief From TranscriptTurn one interview or usability transcript into structured notes: task outcomes, timestamped quotes, surprises, and follow-ups. Not a full-study synthesis. Run after each session; affinity mapping comes later.

Theme across sessions with coverage counts. Rank issues by how many people hit them and how badly the task broke.

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  Affinity Mapping AssistantSynthesize raw qual data (interviews, usability, diaries) using an affinity-style flow: clean, code, cluster into themes with evidence counts, outliers, severity-weighted ranking, and surprises.
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  Research Insight Statement WriterTurn themes and observations into decision-ready insight statements (Observation, Pattern, Implication, Recommendation) plus a short exec "So What" summary. Use after synthesis or affinity output.

Open with what to change. Clips beat slides. Method belongs in the appendix.

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  Research Readout BuilderBuild a research readout deck structure: TL;DR, overview, one slide per finding with evidence and recommendations, prioritized actions, unknowns, appendix, plus speaker notes. More research-specific than generic shareouts.