Actions Don’t Mirror Emotion
Knowing what people do isn’t the same as knowing what they think.
I chat with Dr. Sarah McKenzie about whether you should expect your research to validate your ideas.
A little insight into the difference between segments and personas. They’re not the same, but they’re both important!
Your goal with research shouldn’t be to confirm you’re right — it should be to prove yourself wrong. Thanks to Edison Research VP Tom Webster for inspiring this one.
Every researcher I know has gotten this question or comment at some point: “Steve Jobs said research isn’t helpful because people don’t know what they want.” Actually, what Steve said in an interview in 1998 was: “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want…
There are pros and cons for both choices, and you may want to use different approaches for different respondent groups.