Work with tags and create effective taxonomies for your projects & organizations. Find a right balance between the general and the specific, leaving room for emergent themes.

Discover some approaches to setting up your tags with this illustrative example. Learn tricks to adapt to your context, and optimize your workflow for ease of use.

Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to build on an existing taxonomy, these example tag groups provide a range of starting points and approaches.

Documentary filmmakers Bas and Charley share their experience of using lessons from documentary filmmakers in design research to build “stories that travel”.

Editing interview videos in traditional video editors is a time-consuming challenge, but we make it easy to share research findings from your interview footage.

Dovetail is a go-to tool for researchers to do video analysis & editing — though there are drawbacks to this tool. Here are some Dovetail alternatives to consider.

Reduct.Video was thrilled to host our second Research, Camera, Action! on democratizing UX research. The research community, including research leaders from Google, Stripe, Thumbtack and Curiosity Tank discussed hard-won lessons on this controversial yet important topic.

Product designers often form the interface between a dedicated research team and engineering teams that build the features users want. Learning research not only enables them to do their own research, but also helps them take research from being informative to impactful.

Training non-researchers to do research is a key lever in democratizing research. Learn the most important lessons the Thumbtack research team learned while training 180 participants from 4 orgs across the company.

To have more impact as a function, researchers need to be deliberate about when to move fast and when to slow down. Learn how the research team at Thumbtack manages this conundrum, and makes more impact on the product as a result.

Journey Maps can be extremely helpful to align an organization around customer needs. Learn from Jim Tincher, Mapper in Chief at Heart of the Customer, how to avoid the basic mistakes of journey mapping, and how video storytelling & journey mapping can create powerful impact together.

When democratizing research, researchers struggle with finding the balance between advancing the larger research strategy, and helping teammates perform their own scrappy and tactical research. In this article, we cover three tensions, and how great research teams (like the Rapid Research Team at Google) have found the right balance between them.