Episode 75: Organizing a UX Research Panel with Ashley Warren

Research panels are a fantastic way to do UX research: instead of emailing the entire user list, you're working with a small loyal segment of your audience. Our guest today is Ashley Warren, a UX researcher at ShortStack. You'll learn how to put together a representative research panel, keep them motivated, organize the research process, and manage the results. Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music. Show Notes ShortStack — Ashley's company Why UX Researchers Should Create a Research Panel — Ashley's article Hotjar — a tool for recording user sessions (and other types of analytics) Microsoft Excel, Google Spreadsheets, Google Docs — tools for documenting the results UsabilityHub — a tool for remote user testing UsabilityHub blog, ConversionXL blog, Journal of Usability Studies — great resources for user testing Ashley's website Follow Ashley and ShortStack on Twitter: @ashleynhwarren, @shortstacklab Drop Ashley a line at [email protected] Today's Sponsor This episode is brought to you by FreshBooks — cloud accounting software for freelancers and small business owners. The all new FreshBooks is not only ridiculously easy to use, it’s also packed with powerful features: Create and send professional looking invoices in less than 30 seconds. Set up online payments with just a couple of clicks and get paid up to 4 days faster. See when your client has seen your invoice, and put an end to the guessing games. FreshBooks is offering a 30-day unrestricted free trial to our listeners. To claim it, just go to freshbooks.com/uibreakfast and enter UI BREAKFAST in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.