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UX Researcher
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What this course establishes
- Turn a product decision and assumptions into prioritized research questions, an appropriate method, inclusive recruitment criteria, and an ethical data-management plan
- Moderate a neutral, accessible usability session while obtaining ongoing consent, protecting participant welfare, and capturing traceable evidence
- Analyze fictional evidence into supported findings, confidence and limitations, accessible artifacts, and decision-ready recommendations without overgeneralizing
Entry knowledge
- Clear professional writing and active listening
- Basic familiarity with digital products and user journeys
- Ability to distinguish an observation from an assumption
Scope boundaries
- Practice uses fictional evidence only and does not authorize recruiting, contacting, observing, recording, deceiving, or studying real people without organizational authority, applicable review, informed consent, privacy controls, safeguarding, and qualified supervision
- Does not replace an institutional review board/research ethics committee, legal/privacy counsel, clinical expertise, trauma-informed specialists, accessibility professionals, safeguarding leads, or community expertise
Fastest competency route
Competency evidence determines completion; there is no promised hour count, job placement, professional certification, or authority to conduct research with real people. Prior experience shortens the route only when every ethical, methodological, analytical, accessibility, and revision requirement is demonstrated.
- Pass diagnostics for research questions, method fit, sampling, consent, privacy, neutral moderation, observation, accessibility, synthesis, confidence, and reporting
- Complete the fictional workspace onboarding research plan, session materials, evidence analysis, and decision report
- Correct every leading prompt, unsupported inference, consent/privacy defect, exclusion, overgeneralization, and inaccessible artifact before final assessment
Full self-paced route
- Research questions, method selection, recruitment, ethics, consent, and data management
- Accessible moderated usability testing and evidence capture
- Collaborative analysis, findings, confidence, recommendations, and research impact
- Applied research portfolio and final assessment
Lesson and assessment map
Research questions, method fit, recruitment, and ethics
Create an actionable research plan that matches method and participants to a decision while protecting consent, privacy, access, and welfare.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Neutral moderation, accessibility, and evidence capture
Run a consistent fictional usability session that protects participant agency and produces reliable observation-level evidence.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Analysis, findings, confidence, and decision impact
Transform fictional evidence into traceable findings and recommendations while preserving contradictions, uncertainty, privacy, and accessibility.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Required applied assignment
Ethical onboarding research and decision portfolio
Using only the supplied fictional observations and a fictional prototype plan, produce an end-to-end UX research portfolio from decision and ethics through session design, evidence capture, analysis, accessible reporting, and follow-up. Do not recruit, contact, record, or study real people for this assignment.
- Decision brief, assumptions, prioritized research questions, method/sample rationale, research plan, and stakeholder/decision map
- Recruitment matrix, screener, accommodations plan, information sheet, ongoing-consent script, risk/safeguarding plan, incentive rationale, and pilot checklist
- Data-management plan with purpose, minimization, roles, approved storage, observers/processors, retention, withdrawal/deletion, incident response, and jurisdiction review
- Neutral discussion guide, tasks, probes, moderator/note-taker/observer scripts, accessibility setup, stop criteria, and deviation log
- Evidence matrix retaining observation IDs, quotes, outcomes, counterevidence, invalid O007 treatment, themes, findings, confidence, limitations, and unanswered questions
- Accessible report, evidence table, prioritized recommendations, owner/decision log, standards-plus-user accessibility plan, follow-up round, peer critique, and substantive revision
Passing standard: 85 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.
Continue after this course
- Contextual inquiry, diary studies, participatory and co-design methods, longitudinal research, survey design, and mixed methods
- Sampling, measurement, descriptive and inferential statistics, experimentation, causal inference, and research operations
- Trauma-informed research, safeguarding, children and vulnerable populations, cross-cultural research, translation, and community-based participatory practice
- Accessibility evaluation, WCAG, assistive technologies, inclusive design, service design, information architecture, and content research