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Apply user research and build experiences that drive growth

3h 10min | 9 lessons | 31 downloadable resources

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Conduct user research that reveals real customer needs and behaviors.
  • Use qualitative and quantitative data to improve decision-making.
  • Identify friction points that hurt conversions and engagement.
  • Test and validate ideas before investing in new features or campaigns.
  • Build a customer-driven approach that improves products and marketing.

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Ignoring user research leads to missed opportunities and lost revenue

If you don’t understand your customers, you’re leaving money on the table. Guessing what works leads to wasted resources, low engagement, and missed opportunities for growth. This course gives you a step-by-step system to collect meaningful user insights, refine your strategy, and create experiences that drive real business impact.

Master user research to improve customer understanding and drive growth

Course Length:
3h 10min. 9 lessons.

High-performing companies don’t guess, they listen, test, and adapt. This course is designed for professionals who want to make data-backed decisions that increase customer satisfaction, retention, and conversions. Learn how to uncover insights that eliminate friction, improve usability, and create experiences that keep customers coming back.

After completing this online course on user research, you will be able to assist your team and company with:

  • Conduct user research that directly improves customer experience.
  • Identify pain points and opportunities in the user journey.
  • Apply data-driven insights to product, marketing, and UX decisions.
  • Run usability tests and customer interviews with confidence.
  • Build a research process that continuously drives business growth.

This course is for you if you are responsible for:

  • UX and product teams looking to improve customer experience.
  • Marketers who want to create data-backed campaigns that convert.
  • Growth teams focused on increasing engagement and retention.
  • Founders and business owners who want to build customer-centric products.
  • Anyone responsible for optimizing customer interactions and experiences.

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Course Curriculum

User research

Why everyone should be doing more user research

What can you learn from a redesigned measuring cup? This example will demonstrate (1) how anyone can learn from their users, (2) what good research really is and (3) how this will help you build better products. Topics Covered: Define what user researc

How different research techniques will help you answer different questions

Different research methods help you achieve different goals. Learn about the most common tools in a researcher’s toolbox. And when each of them will (or won’t) give you the answers you need. Topics Covered: Develop specific, useful research questionsEx

Listening to what people say

Learn how to make sure you really hear what your users say. Topics Covered: Describe and use both quantitative and qualitative attitudinal research methodsListen to your users and stakeholders with a critical mindAvoid the pitfalls of leading questions

Watching what people do

Why watching your users interact with your product is crucial to delivering a great experience. Topics Covered: Build useful, actionable tests to make sure you are building a product that delivers a great experience Avoid making common testing mistakes

How to conduct research with the right people

Understand how recruiting the right people will make or break your research agenda. Topics Covered: Learn how to identify the right people to give you great inputHow to make sure users want to participate in research, so you’ll always have participants

How to synthesize your research

Data tells a story. Now you’ll learn how to listen to it. Topics Covered: Learn how to organize your data to support insights and long-term usageGet techniques to easily make sense of large amounts of complex informationSynthesize diverse data to suppo

Creating memorable, useful research deliverables

Discover how you can build artifacts to make sure your research has a long-lasting impact. Topics Covered: Define the goals and purpose of creating a research artifactCreate personas to help your organization understand how to better build for and mark

How To Use AI to Increase Efficiency in Your User Research

Paul Boag demonstrates how AI tools like ChatGPT and Fathom can streamline user research.

Megan Kierstead

Coach @ Megcorp Coaching

Megan is a coach at Megcorp Coaching. She has over a decade of experience in building out pragmatic, scrappy research teams across a variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, retail, and other notoriously complex areas.

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