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User research

Meaning in product management, with examples

nounCore term

In product management, user research means: The study of how real users behave, what they need and what problems they have, through methods such as interviews, surveys and usability tests.

In Turkish: kullanıcı araştırması

How it is used

Done by UX researchers, designers and PMs. You do, run or conduct user research and share its findings or insights. Qualitative research explains why people act as they do; quantitative research shows how many of them do it.

Example sentences

  1. User research showed that most people never open the settings page.

  2. We don't have budget for a big study, but we can still do some quick user research.

Common collocations

  • conduct user research
  • user research findings
  • qualitative user research
  • user research session
  • customer interviewA one-to-one conversation with a current or potential customer to understand their needs, habits and problems, usually as part of product discovery.
  • usability testingA research method in which real users try to complete tasks with a product or prototype while the team watches where they succeed, hesitate or fail.
  • personaA realistic but invented profile of a typical user, based on research, that describes their goals, habits and problems so the team can design for them.
  • pain pointA specific problem, frustration or difficulty that users experience, which a product can solve or reduce.
  • product discoveryThe work of finding out which problems are worth solving and which solutions will actually work, before the team commits to building them.

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