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What are the four links in a UCD research plan?
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Research question → method → data you will collect → the design decision the data will settle.
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What two things must a research question name?
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A user group you could go and find this week, and a task those users carry out with a beginning and an end.
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Why does a UCD plan use two research methods rather than one?
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Every method has a blind spot. A watching method (observation, field research) shows what happens but not why; an asking method (interview, focus group) gives reasons but people misreport what they did.
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What is the test that kills a weak research question?
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Would a different answer change the design? If nothing changes whichever way the data falls, the question is decoration and the hours are better spent elsewhere.
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