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Analysis: Task Analysis
Understand steps and decisions users make to complete a task.
Behavioral analysis: Analytics and heat maps
Automatic collection of real-time navigation data to observe clicks, scrolls, and interaction paths.
Behavioral analysis: Eye Tracking
Measure where users fix their visual attention and scanning patterns.
Behavioral analysis: Funnel Analysis
Study of user behavior through key steps in a process (registration, payment, etc.) to detect drop-offs.
Behavioral analysis: Microinteractions and expressions
Use of recordings or AI to analyze facial expressions, pauses, or click patterns in sensitive or complex interactions.
Co-creation: Participatory design
Involve users directly in the design process as co-creators.
Desk Research: Competitive analysis
Understand trends, expectations, and competitive practices.
Desk Research: Literature review
Collect existing information and background on a topic, users, or market.
Experimentation: A/B Testing
Experimental methodology for comparing design versions through controlled testing and rapid validation of specific changes.
Expert evaluation: Cognitive Walkthrough
Evaluate learning ease of an interface for new users.
Expert evaluation: Heuristic analysis
Identify usability problems based on recognized heuristics.
Information architecture: Card Sorting
Method for understanding how users group information, helping to define or validate an information architecture.
Information architecture: Tree Testing
Evaluate if users can find information in an already defined structure (such as a menu or map).
Interview: Contextual
Interviews conducted while the user interacts with their real environment.
Interview: Focus groups
Moderated sessions with multiple users simultaneously to collect collective perceptions on a topic.
Interview: In-depth
Individual conversations with users to explore their motivations, needs, and opinions in detail.
Interview: Projective techniques
Qualitative techniques where users express subconscious perceptions through linguistic or visual associations.
Interview: Stakeholders
Understand business objectives, project constraints, and internal expectations.
Longitudinal study: Diaries
Understand usage, habits, and evolution of product experience over time.
Observation: Ethnography
Direct observation of users in their natural context to understand real behaviors.
Observation: Shadowing
Following the user during their journey without intervening.
Survey: Contextual in-app feedback
Request feedback right at the moment of use, within the app or website, to obtain timely and specific opinions.
Survey: General
Collect quantitative information (opinions, attitudes, characteristics, behaviors).
Survey: NPS / CSAT
Survey: Perception and desirability
Collect user opinions on aesthetics and emotional appeal of designs.
Survey: Post-task
Survey: SUS (System Usability Scale)
Testing: 5 seconds
First impression test where users see an interface for 5 seconds and then answer questions about what they remember and perceived.
Testing: First click
Evaluate if users initially click in the correct area to complete a task. Predicts navigation success.
Testing: Guerrilla
Quick and economical version of usability testing, conducted in informal settings with users not necessarily from target audience.
Testing: Remote unmoderated
Unmoderated measurement of execution times and success rates on specific tasks. Users complete tasks independently while quantitative metrics are recorded.
Testing: Think Aloud (moderated)
During testing, users verbalize what they're thinking, allowing understanding of their decisions and frustrations in real-time.
Testing: Visual preference
Qualitative methodology where multiple visual versions are presented to users to identify preferences.
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