UX Research Discovery Testing

Purpose

Help an agent make better product, UX, UI, and frontend recommendations by grounding them in user goals, observed behavior, business outcomes, and testable evidence. Use this skill to choose just-enough research methods, write interview and usability-test plans, synthesize findings, identify opportunities, and explain evidence-backed product decisions.

It is an operating manual for doing practical research under real product constraints.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user asks you to:

• Plan discovery, customer interviews, field visits, contextual inquiry, or stakeholder interviews.
• Review, critique, redesign, or generate a UI where user behavior, task success, accessibility, or product outcomes matter.
• Create an interview guide, screener, usability-test script, research plan, synthesis framework, opportunity map, journey map, persona, task flow, or evidence-backed recommendation.
• Decide what to build, improve, remove, or test next.
• Evaluate a prototype, live UI, design system component, onboarding flow, form, navigation model, dashboard, empty state, error flow, or content hierarchy.
• Turn qualitative notes, analytics, survey findings, support tickets, screenshots, or observations into product decisions.