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Did I mention I’m freelancing? (or, coping strategies from the dining room desk)


So, I don’t remember whether I specifically told you or not, but I’ve just gone out to work on my own.
A freelance what, I’m not exactly sure.. I’m hoping to continue to do what I’ve been doing for a while now - design/user research and user centred design (including information architecture and interaction design), but [...]

Embracing the Un-Science of Qualitative Research Part Three - Improvising is Excellent


So, recently we’ve been talking about Qualitative Research and how it’s not so scientific, but that ain’t bad.
We identified three ways that you *might* make Qualitative Research more scientific and have been pulling those approaches apart. They are to:

Use a relatively large sample size (which we destroyed here)
Ensure that your test environment doesn’t change (which [...]