User research, explained in six sentences
Each topic in exactly six sentences, plus illustrations. We read several articles and guides on the subject first, then write our own explanation and draw our own pictures, and we link everything we read.
Explained
Screener surveys: how researchers find the right people
The short questionnaire that decides who gets the interview, and how good ones keep bluffers out.
ExplainedHow many participants does a study need?
Why five people is the famous answer, when it isn't, and how interviews use a different rule.
ExplainedResearch incentives: what participants get paid, and why
How studies set the thank-you payment, what it does to who shows up, and how the money actually arrives.