Design plan
Option 4:
Learn about a group or community
Time frame: 12 – 24 weeks
Budget: $200,000 – $250,000
How do I do this?
 - Desktop research or landscape review- Method To ensure prior internal and external research is incorporated into research design and planning.
 - Expert interviews or stakeholder workshop(s)- Method To identify internal understandings of challenges and opportunities. Multiple workshops should be scoped, depending on the complexity of the stakeholder group.
 - Survey or opportunity sizing- Method To gain quantitative data around a community or population’s needs and behaviours. This may be done after ethnographic research in order to size pain points or opportunities identified through that phase.
 - Ethnographic research (x 40 participants)- Method To focus on understanding how people behave and what they use, in order to identify opportunities for improvement.
 - Research synthesis- Method Ensuring that stakeholder questions are answered, that insights are documented in a robust and reusable way and that actionable recommendations for the product or service are arrived at.
What will I get?
 - Insights report- Output The output from user research, containing insights, stories, opportunities or recommendations backed up by evidence.
 - Current state journey map- Output A tool used to visualise the user experience. It shows where and when a person or group interacts with existing services and products and what the experience is like for them.
 - Personas- Output A made up person (archetype), based on user research, that represents a group of people who use a site, service or product in a similar way or who have similar user needs.
 - Quantitative insights- Output Research with large or many datasets that describe ‘what’ happens rather than ‘why’ it happens.
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