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Building Your UX Research Repository: A Complete Guide for Modern UX Teams
A UX research repository centralizes user insights from interviews, tests, and surveys, helping teams avoid repeated research and make better product decisions.
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Mobile App Usability Testing: What it is, Why it matters, and How to do it right?
A frustrating app experience drives users away in seconds. Mobile usability testing helps you fix issues before they churn. Learn what to test, how to test, and what insights really matter.
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Customer Experience Testing: Types, use cases, examples & templates
Ever felt stuck in a bad online experience? CX testing helps you fix those issues before they cost you customers. Check out the types, examples, and templates to improve your customer experience
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Welcome to the Future of UX Research: UXArmy’s All-New Credit System!
Say hello to easier UX research! UXArmy’s Unified platform & pooled credit system brings more flexibility to your workflow—apply credits across all research types, track usage, and collaborate seamlessly with your team
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How AI Fits into UX Research: 7 Practical Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder
AI is here to help, not replace you. Find out how AI tools can speed up your UX research, spark new ideas, and make your life a little easier without the tech overload
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Introducing the 5-Second Usability Test and First Click Test on UXArmy
Get quick, actionable insights with UXArmy's 5-Second and First Click tests. Refine your designs faster and smarter—because good design doesn’t have to take forever!
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How to Find the Right Participants for Your Next User Research Project
Struggling to find the right participants for your user research? This guide breaks down practical, no-nonsense strategies to help you recruit exactly who you need and avoid costly missteps
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11+ Best UX Design Tools & Software to Use in 2025
Kick off 2025 with the best UX tools to prototype, test, and perfect your designs—making your process faster, smarter, and more user-friendly
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How to Build Trust with Stakeholders in UX Research
Learn how to turn raw data into trust-building stories, tackle pushback with confidence, and make your stakeholders fall in love with your research
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DeepDive®: Now with More Features & Flexibility
Discover how DeepDive® has evolved to make moderated research easier than ever—live user interviews in different formats, focus groups, up to 3-hour long sessions & mor
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Track Every Step your Users take within your Prototypes with ‘Figma Full Path’
Track every step your users take with UXArmy’s Figma Full Path. Get insights into user navigation, common paths, and drop-offs to refine your designs and build better products.
Read More How Krutika Subramanian Made Us Rethink Cross-functional Collaboration in UX Research
We recently had a fantastic chat with Krutika Subramanian, a seasoned leader in the UX research world. Her insights made us think, “We can definitely do better!” When she talked about cross-functional collaboration, we couldn’t help but nod along, thinking, “This is exactly what we need!”
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How can user research improve UX design?
Products today are getting increasingly competitive in providing enjoyable user experience (UX). In order to develop products that resonate well with users, UX designers must go beyond aesthetic choices and dive deeper into understanding user behavior and needs.
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Myths about UX Researchers, debunked
From the lens of people outside of the UX field, the UX Researcher role can be conceptualized and interpreted in many different ways.
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Plan a Usability Test with Notion (Template by UXArmy)
Usability testing is a vital step in ensuring a seamless user experience for your digital products. To streamline your usability test planning process
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First Impressions of Landing Pages – How To Get Them Right?
Landing pages succeed or fail in seconds. Learn the psychology of first impressions, device and speed considerations, role-specific playbooks, AI-assisted workflows, pitfalls to avoid, and credible examples - so your pages convert.
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Design Decision-Making with Unmoderated User Testing
Gone are the days when design decisions were made based on gut or consensus. User feedback is becoming an inextricable part of the UX Design process.
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UX Research Cheat Sheet #1 – A Series
User research is a continuous process with no time being the wrong time to do one. That opens several questions in the minds of researchers, especially when they are new to the field.
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UX Research Cheat Sheet #3 – A Series
To build some context, Usability testing is an evaluative user research that enables the key stakeholders and project team to understand how people interact with a product.
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User Research Cheat Sheet #2 – A Series
As a refresher, cheatsheets address a need to make a quick reference and reinforce your understanding about a topic.
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What does it mean to be Inclusive in UX Research?
When we think of a futuristic reality for the human race, we think of flying cars and holographic calls. We may not be there just yet but we are sure on our way to building a digital future for all.
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Is Design Thinking Still Relevant for Product Design?
Design Thinking’s hype may have faded, but its value remains. This guide explores its critiques, lasting strengths, and modern approaches like Continuous Discovery, AI-assisted research, and Design/ResearchOps to keep teams human-centered and effective.
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Challenges Faced by UX Researchers in 2025 and Beyond
UX research is under pressure-from AI, speed-at-all-costs cultures, and shrinking teams. This piece separates threat from noise, shows where human insight still wins, and lays out a practical action plan to stay indispensable. If you guide decisions with empathy and evidence, the future is very much yours.
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How to do Qualitative UX Research effectively using AI?
Discover what matters most to your customers! Creating compelling user experiences starts with knowing what your customers value.
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