Ritzie WilliamsUX & Product Design Leader | Data‑Driven, User‑Centered, and Focused on Business Growth | Strategy, Research & Scalable Systems

Good design starts with choosing the right tool for the job—not just the fastest one.

Name: Good design starts with choosing the right tool for the job—not just the fastest one.
Uploaded: 2025-05-31T18:58:13+00:00
Duration: 20 s
Channel: Ritzie Williams
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker emphasizes that effective UX research hinges on selecting the appropriate method for the specific research goal…

31 May 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker emphasizes that effective UX research hinges on selecting the appropriate method for the specific research goal rather than defaulting to the quickest option. They explain that if the objective is to assess usability, a usability test is the suitable method. For exploratory or discovery objectives, they recommend conducting discovery activities, such as user interviews. The core message is that the research method should be driven by what you need to learn.

What's your go-to UX research method? I think it's about using the right tool at the right time. If we're trying to find out if something's usable, we should usability test it. If we're trying to do discovery, we should try to do discovery and possibly do user interviews. It really depends. There's, there's certain things you have to know that you want to learn, and that's the research method you should use.