Typical UX Research Cycle

The typical UX Research cycle will usually follow the follow pattern of actions:

Recruit participants for your fieldwork
Undertake the ethnographic fieldwork
Analyse the results
Design tweaks, changes, improvements or perhaps even entirely new spaces / services, based on the results.
Implement changes to your services and spaces. Aim to make changes as you go along, rather than waiting until the end to launch wholesale changes all at once. See the Prototyping section of the toolkit for more information on this.
Bonus step: If you really want to do UX right, now go back to the fieldwork stage! Evaluate the changes you’ve made, recruiting new participants if necessary. You may then need to make further design changes too - the idea is to keep developing what you’ve done, to improve the users’ experiences

UX research by its nature is an ethnographic form of research in which the researcher seeks to understand users’ experience and manner of engagement with a particular environment from the user's perspective: preferably while the user is still engaged within the environment.

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