designer-skills/design-research
MC Dean d298d6ba5f
Create synthesis guide for research data
Added a guide for synthesizing qualitative research data into actionable insights using affinity diagrams and themes.
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design-research

User research skills for designers: personas, empathy maps, journey maps, interview scripts, usability testing, and card sorting.

Skills (10)

  • user-persona — Create refined user personas from research data with demographics, goals, frustrations, and behavioral patterns.
    • empathy-map — Build a 4-quadrant empathy map (Says, Thinks, Does, Feels) to synthesize user research into actionable insights.
      • journey-map — Create an end-to-end user journey map with stages, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, and opportunity areas.
        • interview-script — Create a structured user interview script with warm-up, core exploration, and wrap-up sections.
          • summarize-interview — Summarize a user interview transcript into structured insights with key themes, quotes, and action items.
            • usability-test-plan — Design a usability test plan with tasks, success metrics, participant criteria, and facilitation guide.
              • card-sort-analysis — Analyze card sorting results to inform information architecture and navigation structure.
                • diary-study-plan — Design a diary study plan with prompts, duration, participant criteria, and analysis framework.
                  • affinity-diagram — Organize qualitative research data into an affinity diagram with themes, clusters, and insight statements.
                    • jobs-to-be-done — Map user Jobs-to-Be-Done with functional, emotional, and social dimensions plus outcome expectations.

                    • Commands (4)

                      • /design-research:discover — Run a full user research cycle: persona creation, empathy mapping, and journey mapping.
                        • /design-research:interview — Prepare an interview script or summarize an interview transcript into structured insights.
                          • /design-research:test-plan — Design a complete usability test plan with tasks, metrics, and facilitation guide.
                            • /design-research:synthesize — Synthesize research data into affinity diagrams, themes, and actionable insights.

                            • Author

                            • MC Dean

                            • License

                            • MIT