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Jane Davis
Jane is the Principal Researcher at Great Question, where she helps companies make better decisions faster through insights. Prior to joining Great Question, she created and ran the UX Research practice for Zoom, was head of UX Research for Zapier, ran the Growth Research team for Dropbox, and led UX Research for BitTorrent. She’s worked as a researcher, a designer, a librarian, and an event planner. She lives in Oakland with her partner and their two children, and spends as much time as humanly possible outdoors. In her heart of hearts, she believes research is actually a sales role.
Research Goals
✓ Prioritize with a risk-and-confidence matrix
How to set & achieve research goals without a research team
Need help setting research goals? Get Jane’s (free) research goal-setting worksheet and learn how to set up continuous discovery in Great Question here.
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AI-Assisted Research
✓ a human-centered framework for where AI actually helps
Emergent best practices in AI-assisted design and research
For two months, Great Question’s Jane Davis spoke to designers and researchers about AI. Here’s what she found about its emerging use cases and best practices.
Research Maturity
✓ two levers, impact and infrastructure, and twelve ways to build them
An in-depth look at organizational research maturity
Organizational research maturity requires two things: impact and infrastructure. Great Question's Jane Davis shares the 12 components of research maturity.
Participant recruitment
✓ Get the right people to say yes, without the fatigue
Best practices for UX research participant recruitment
Use these best practice tips to improve UX research participant recruitment