Operations and Planning

Research roadmapping

A UX research roadmap is a plan that defines your team’s key research goals and the strategy to reach them. It shows a timeline for the studies that will be conducted during the year to achieve those research goals.

Source: Nora Pekker, “How to Build a compelling UX Research Roadmap”

  • Miro - 23.41% of question respondents
  • Google Sheets - 11.21%
  • Jira - 9.26%
  • Google Docs - 8.78%
  • Confluence - 8.29%
  • Notion - 5.85%
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Research planning

A research plan is a document that sets expectations and highlights the most important information you need to communicate with stakeholders in a specific research project. It is usually a collaboration between all stakeholders to ensure it meets the goals and objectives you’ve laid out.

Source: Zack Naylor, “How to Create a UX Research Plan”

  • Google Docs - 20.97% of question respondents
  • Miro - 16.58%
  • Confluence - 15.12%
  • Microsoft Word - 10.24%
  • Notion - 7.31%
  • Jira - 6.34%
  • Google Sheets - 5.36%
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Project management

Management of multiple UX research projects.

  • Jira - 20% of question respondents
  • Google Sheets - 9.75%
  • Miro - 8.78%
  • Notion - 8.78%
  • Confluence - 8.78%
  • Trello - 6.82%
  • Airtable - 6.82%
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Issue tracking

Tracking the impact of research findings/issues to address.

  • Jira - 19.02% of question respondents
  • Miro - 6.34%
  • Confluence - 6.34%
  • Airtable - 5.85%
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