Workshopping UX Research with Stakeholders
Summary: Three types of UX-research workshops help teams understand UX research, build empathy for users, and apply insights to design concepts.
After a recent Facilitating UX Workshops course at one of our live online UX training events , an attendee asked how to run workshops focused on existing user research: Should workshop participants engage directly with the research, and what activities are effective? Many UX teams struggle to make research accessible. This article shares practical ways to “workshop research” with hands-on activities that help stakeholders understand, empathize, and achieve better results.
What Is a UX Research Workshop?
When valuable research is merely described (sometimes through email in a static document) instead of experienced, stakeholders rarely internalize the findings. Research workshops can bring people into the research.
Research workshops aim to help participants internalize and apply UX research. The goal is to transition from research outputs (data, findings, reports) to a shared understanding (insight, empathy, alignment).
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