Strategy & Vision
The second chapter of ARCHECO's user research series addresses the practical challenge that theory-focused UX education consistently fails to prepare practitioners for: conducting meaningful research under real-world constraints of time, budget, and access.
Execution & Design
Method selection is the central skill: contextual inquiry, diary studies, co-creation workshops, and laboratory usability testing illuminate different aspects of user reality. The choice between them is not arbitrary — it follows the research question.
Impact & Growth
Recruiting the right participants is the single most consequential decision in any user research project. Research conducted with wrong participants — however methodologically rigorous — produces findings that don't transfer to the actual user population.
Conclusion
The synthesis phase —
