Surveys for StartUps

It’s easy to send out a survey to a bunch of customers. But as the stardust settles, you notice: people are fed up with yet another survey and the responses you did get actually take too much time to synthesize. Are surveys dead? No, but it’s too easy get...

Who is my Customer?

Airtime Academy Module #1 Last week we kicked off “Research for Product Managers,” a free training series based on the last several years working to enable research in product teams. The series is hosted by Airtime, a great software tool for product...

Who are my users?

In this episode of the Design Insights Series, I address one of the first questions to ask in new product development, “Who are my users?” I explain why this question is important to ask, and how to answer it, using the ethnographic tools of observation...