Steps to Research Goal Alignment
Learn all you need to know on how to effectively communicate and design your user research for the development team.
Sarah Romoslawski
Contributing author at PlaytestCloud. Currently playing: Assemble with Care.
6 posts
Cue-Behavior-Understanding: A Tool for End to End Evaluative Games User Research
Game user researchers often talk about the importance of measuring design intent. What does this actually mean, though? Simply put, the design intent is the game designer’s vision. It is all the intentional decisions surrounding the fundamental aspects of a game that cause players to learn how to play...
Cross-Functional Collaboration in Games User Research
The ability to deliver great user research within an organization is a team effort. Finding allies of support beyond the research discipline will elevate a good practice to an outstanding one.
Learning Plans for Games User Research Roadmaps
The first time I had to put together a research plan to thus inform a year’s worth of budgeting was no trivial task. Considering the needs of multiple teams and the differences of where they were in their development process meant that plans could not simply be duplicated at...
Directions to Discovery
In our previous blog post, we made the case for doing exploratory research in a game development context. In this post, we get into the details of actually doing it– drawing from an example can help unpack the process.
The Case for Unmoderated Exploratory Research
A rigorous, iterative product development cycle includes plenty of testing, early and often. But what about when there is nothing yet to test? The answer is discovery. Discovery typically describes an early phase in product design. Exploratory research is a type of research done during this phase. Also known as...