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How Akraya Runs Embedded UX Research Teams
The biggest worry with bringing in outside research help is that you will end up with another contractor to manage on top of everything else....
UX Research
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What Does a UX Research Agency Do? A Guide for Enterprise Teams
Most enterprise teams start looking for a UX research agency for one of two reasons. Either the research backlog is growing faster than the internal...
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Speed Without Research is a Liability, Not An Advantage
If you ask for more time to research, you risk being seen as the person slowing the launch down. But if you skip the research to hit the deadline and...
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Rapid UX Research at Akraya: Studies in 1-3 Weeks, Without Cutting Corners
Most UX research studies take 4 weeks to several months. A product sprint often lasts just two weeks. That creates a timing problem. By the time the...
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The Benefits of Outsourcing UX Research
When research demand grows faster than your team can handle, hiring more researchers seems like the obvious answer. The problem is that hiring rarely...
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The Benefits of UX Research
Imagine spending six months automating an approval process, only to find out the real problem was that managers did not trust the data they were...
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What Is On-Demand UX Research? How the Model Works and When to Use It
The short version On-demand UX research is a managed service model that gives product teams a way to add research capacity the moment a decision...
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When to Use Managed UX Research vs. Staff Augmentation
The short version Managed UX research and staff augmentation both add research capacity, but your team plays a very different role in each one. Key...
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How to Choose a UX Research Partner: Consultancy, Agency, Staffing, or Managed Research
The short version Big consultancy – Best when you need global scale, multiple workstreams, and a provider procurement already knows how to work with....
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What is UX Research as a Service (RaaS)?
As UX research demand grows, adding more full-time researchers is not always the easiest way to keep up.