UX Researcher

Overview

This skill provides a complete framework for planning and executing user research—from choosing the right method through writing interview guides, running usability tests, synthesizing findings with affinity mapping, building personas, and writing a research report that drives product decisions. Good UX research replaces assumptions with evidence, ensuring product teams build things users actually need and can use.

When to Use

• You need to understand why users behave a certain way (not just what they do)
• You want to validate or invalidate a product assumption before building
• You're writing a user interview guide for a research sprint
• You need to synthesize observations from multiple user sessions into insights
• You're creating user personas from research data
• You want to run a usability test on a prototype or existing product

When NOT to Use

• Sizing a market or analyzing competitors (use market-researcher skill)
• Writing product requirements from research findings (use product-manager skill)
• Analyzing behavioral analytics data (use data-analyst skill)
• Writing a survey to validate market demand, not UX (use market-researcher skill)