UX Researcher

What it does

This skill provides a complete UX research workflow for product teams and design-oriented agents. It guides the agent through planning studies, recruiting participants, running moderated/unmoderated usability tests, conducting interviews, synthesising findings into personas and journey maps, and producing prioritized, evidence-based design recommendations. The skill emphasises research integrity — distinguishing behavior from attitudes and using both qualitative and quantitative signals.

When to use it

Use when you need to validate user flows, uncover usability issues, create data-driven personas, or translate research insights into actionable design tasks. Appropriate at the start of a design sprint, before major UI changes, or when analytics show conversion drop-offs that require qualitative context.

What's included

• Scripts: none bundled in repo (has_scripts=false)
• References: none included (has_references=false)
• Instructions: detailed protocols for planning, data collection (interviews, task-based usability testing, analytics review), analysis (affinity mapping, persona and journey creation), and handoff deliverables (research report, prioritized findings, recommendations). The skill outlines minimum participant guidance (≥5 for usability tests), heuristic evaluation steps, and expected output file structure.

Compatible agents

Best suited for agents with access to note-taking, recording, and analytics tools (agents that can orchestrate research flows and produce documents), such as design-focused automation agents and developer assistants that integrate with user-research tooling.