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Actionable advice on user research, product management and customer discovery.
How To Run An Opportunity Gap Survey (User Research Guide)
Opportunity Gap Surveys identify which discovery research insights have the highest potential for impact by measuring how important each need is to your users and comparing that against how satisfied those same users are with their current solutions. The name comes from this comparison โ finding the gap between importance and satisfaction allows you to spot opportunities that are very important to your customers but poorly served today.
Van Westendorp for Pricing Research (Survey Guide)
A Van Westendorp is a survey method used to measure a productโs optimal price. Known specifically as the Van Westendorp Price Sensitivity Meter, or sometimes just VM PSM for short, this survey method shows you how price changes impact your customersโ willingness to pay for your product.
How To Create A Full-Profile Conjoint Analysis Survey
In Full-Profile Conjoint Analysis, a list of fixed profiles is created in advance rather than allowing attribute options to be randomly selected, and the results show which overall profiles were most and least likely to be selected.
How To Conduct A Double Materiality Assessment (Full Guide)
Materiality assessments are not difficult to administer yourself. The various free guides youโll find on the internet will try to convince you that materiality assessments are complex and time-consuming processes. In reality, these guides purposely exclude any information about how to actually measure materiality so that youโll be forced to pay them >$100,000/year to conduct these assessments for you.
18 Tools That Save Partial Submissions & Incomplete Surveys
Which survey tools autosave answers? I tested 18 of the most popular survey platforms to see which offer partial completion functionality to capture incomplete sessions when respondents drop-out.
Competing Values Framework: Methods, Tools, Templates
The Competing Values Framework (CVF) is one of the most popular academic theories for understanding how organizations act. It uses a simple 2x2 matrix to quantitatively map an organizationโs culture in a simple yet empirically validated way that allows leaders to plan strategies to change their culture over time.
What is a Contingency Table in Survey Analysis?
Contingency tables compare two or more types of data to see how often they overlap in a matrix table. Learn how they works, what the best tools are, when to use it for your research, and what its advantages are over other survey analysis methods.
Crosstab Analysis: Explanation, Examples, Methods, Advantages, Use Cases, Tools
Crosstab Analysis lets you compare two or more types of data to see how often they overlap in a simple matrix table format. Learn how crosstabulation works, what the best tools are, when to use it for your research, and what its advantages are over other survey analysis methods.
The Ultimate Guide to Conjoint Analysis: Explanation, Examples, Types, Tools, & Use Cases
Conjoint analysis is a popular market research method for understanding whatโs most important to customers when theyโre picking between products during a purchase decision. This post explains what Conjoint Analysis is, how it works, and how to design your own conjoint survey.
Multivoting: 6 Best Tools & Techniques for Group Decisions
Multivoting is a way for a group of people to prioritize a list of options by allowing each person to vote for multiple options in order of their personal preference. Itโs a popular way to make group decision-making a more participatory and consensus-driven activity.
How to Measure Company Culture using the OCAI Assessment
The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) is a popular research method for quantitatively mapping a companyโs culture. It offers a simple yet empirically-validated way to analyze both an organizationโs present and preferred culture, helping leadership teams create data-driven strategies for transforming how their company works.
What is Best-Worst Scaling? (Examples, Methods, Free Tools)
Best-Worst Scaling is a method for ranking peopleโs preferences by asking them to choose the best and worst option from a series of statements.
Pairwise Comparison: The EASIEST Way To Rank Any List [Video]
Pairwise Comparison (also known as Paired Voting or Pairwise Ranking) is a simple yet powerful way of ranking a list of options by breaking them into a series of head-to-head votes. This video explains everything you need to know about Pairwise Comparison, including its origin, use cases, setup tips, and real-world examples.
19 PMF Survey Templates: Basic, Advanced & Expert (and 8 mistakes to avoid!)
I reviewed 104 survey questions from all the PMF templates I could find online. Here are 8 things to avoid and 3 researcher-approved templates for you to steal for your next Product Market Fit Survey.
The 12 Best Tools For Creating Product/Market Fit Surveys (PMF Survey)
When picking a tool for your PMF survey, you need to consider: price and limitations, filtering and segmentation, branching and survey functionality, and more. To save you the time, I tested and reviewed the 12 most popular PMF Survey tools โ hereโs everything you need to know.
How To Rank Any List of Names (Methods, Examples, Tools)
6 voting, polling, and survey methods you can use to turn a subjective set of names into a ranked list based on peopleโs strongest preferences (with interactive examples and results).
How to use PMF Surveys to reach Product/Market Fit Faster (Guide + Case Study)
Product Market Fit Surveys are a great way to benchmark your current level of PMF, but with some simple segmentation analysis techniques, they become a powerful user research and strategy tool for early-stage startups.
No More Limits: Giving OpinionX Away For Free [Our 2024 Strategy Explained]
Weโre removing all limits on free surveys. Users can now create unlimited surveys with unlimited questions that engage unlimited participants โ all for free. Hereโs why weโre bullish about freemium for OpinionX.
Head-To-Head Pair Voting (Methods, Tools, Examples)
Head-to-head pairwise voting is one of the easiest ways to rank a list of options. This guide explains the best methods and most popular tools to use, along with some real examples.
Pairwise Ranking (Tools, Examples, Methods)
The Ultimate Guide To Pairwise Ranking โ best methods, most popular tools, example pairwise comparison surveys, types of pair ranking, calculation formulas, and more.