Market research
is an effective tool to assist your business planning. It is about collecting
information that provides an insight into your customers thinking, buying
patterns, and location. In addition, market research can also assist you to
monitor market trends and keep an eye on what your competition is doing.
There is a variety of data sources to assist you in researching:
Customers
Competitors
Industry
Location
There are two types of market research to collect data
Primary Research:
Referred to as information gathered form original source
Survey
face -to -face Interviews
customer feedback
Questionares
Secondary
Research is information and data that has been already collected and
analysed by other sources:
industry and trade publications
social media and websites
marketing and consumer lists
newspapers and media
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Design search is knowledge
assembled by a small team dedicated full time to the creation of the product in
questionares. A
design research phase consists of three main activities: stakeholder
interviews, domain research, and user interviews. Some combination of
all three makes for a successful phase. The length of each activity depends on
the complexity of the product. More is always better, but effective design
research can be gathered in a relatively short amount of time. Typically, one
to three weeks is sufficient for most business and domain products, while
complex enterprise systems with multiple interfaces require a longer research
period.
An intimate understanding of user research is
fundamental for designers. In order to gain such an understanding of the
research, designers must lead—or at least participate in—user interviews.
Simply handing them a report generated by someone else is not nearly as
effective. If the design team is truly immersed in the user research and models
that come out of that research, it will be much easier for them to design a
product that meets the needs of the users rather than themselves.
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