Publication date : 07/19/2024

Course : User research, measuring the user experience

Practical course - 3d - 21h00 - Ref. UXR
Price : 2270 CHF E.T.

User research, measuring the user experience




Providing a pleasant and effective user experience (UX) is an essential business challenge today. To achieve this, it is essential to gather data in the field before designing. This training course will help you understand the challenges of user research (UXR) when designing a digital product or service.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. UXR
  3d - 21h00
2270 CHF E.T.




Providing a pleasant and effective user experience (UX) is an essential business challenge today. To achieve this, it is essential to gather data in the field before designing. This training course will help you understand the challenges of user research (UXR) when designing a digital product or service.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Understanding the purpose and principles of user research
Identify the main qualitative and quantitative techniques used upstream of a project (questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, etc.)
Identify the main downstream user testing techniques (moderated and unmoderated testing, logbook, eye tracking, etc.).
Finalize key upstream research deliverables
Develop a test plan (variables, modalities, objectives, hypotheses, etc.)
Identify and describe key user experience metrics

Intended audience
Anyone in charge of UX/UI issues for a digital project, who may interact with end-users.

Prerequisites
Good knowledge of HMI ergonomic principles.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Audiovisual aids, documentation and course support, practical application exercises and answer keys.

Course schedule

1
Introduction: why measure UX?

  • UX issues in digital projects.
  • ROI of the UX approach.
  • Objective and subjective measurements.
Storyboarding workshops

2
Upstream user research

  • The challenges of user modeling.
  • Observational approach: ethnography, fly on the wall...
  • Declarative approach: qualitative techniques (interviews, focus groups, etc.)
  • Declarative approach: quantitative techniques (questionnaires)
  • Design with users: workshops, card sorting...
  • The evaluator's posture: practical advice.
  • Data analysis: synoptic tables and task trees.
  • Deliverables: personas and experience map.
Hands-on work
Drafting of a user interview guide, interviews, formalization of a persona sheet and an experience map.

3
Downstream user research

  • The difference between auditing and user testing.
  • Moderate and non-moderate tests: advantages and disadvantages.
  • Testing tools and platforms.
  • Test protocol: objectives, hypotheses and metrics.
  • Specific techniques: the logbook.
  • Specific techniques: eye tracking.
  • UX metrics: effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, acceptability, accessibility...
  • Data analysis and drafting of recommendations.
  • To find out more: atomic research and UX repository.
Hands-on work
Develop test protocols, carry out test runs, analyze data and present results.


Dates and locations

Dernières places
Date garantie en présentiel ou à distance
Session garantie
From 13 to 15 April 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 29 June to 1 July 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 5 to 7 October 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration

REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 13 Apr., 29 June, 5 Oct.