[HN Gopher] Show HN: A beginner's guide to finding user needs ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: A beginner's guide to finding user needs https://urbook.fordes.de/ ...a free/libre book about UX research with qualitative methods on motivations, activities written for UX researchers, UX designers and product managers. I have been writing on this book since about 2010 and did a large rewrite during the first half of 2022. (I initally planned this with a bigger tech publisher). This is the link to the full book for online reading: https://jdittrich.github.io/userNeedResearchBook/ (it's one long page, so it might take a bit to load) Author : simulo Score : 94 points Date : 2022-10-11 16:58 UTC (6 hours ago) | crawfordcomeaux wrote: | After doing a Ctrl-F for "need" and not finding any distinction | between needs and wants, I'm wondering if you understand what a | human need is and if this book helps uncover actual needs versus | things that aren't needs. | dang wrote: | I'm afraid your comment here has broken both the HN site | guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), | which include: " _Please don 't post shallow dismissals, | especially of other people's work. A good critical comment | teaches us something._" | | ... and has also broken the extra guidelines that apply to Show | HN threads (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). | | Can you please follow the rules in the future? We want HN to be | a place where people's work can be discussed respectfully and | substantively. There's plenty of room for asking questions, | offering critiques, and so on, but we don't want a putdown | culture of trying to make others look like idiots. There's | enough of that elsewhere on the internet. | simulo wrote: | I agree that discussing that distinction [ed: between needs and | wants] can make sense. Since the book does not use the concept | of needs as an abstract concepts ("what is a Need") nor as | research device ("What are your needs?") I did not discuss it. | Fittingly, if you Ctrl+F for "want" you will not find it being | use as a research concept either (There are a lot of "wants" in | regards to researcher activities as in "You want to do X after | Y") | xwowsersx wrote: | Their critique might've been helpful/valid if approached | correctly, I don't know. I do know that Ctrl+F'ing through a | 30K+ word book in search of the word "need" in order to call | out the absence of some very specific thing they decided is | essential, without actually reading the book, seems to me | like idle sniping and not a genuine critique. It comes across | as peevish and snarky. | | To the OP, the book looks interesting and I've started | reading it from the top. FWIW btw, it loads very quickly on | my end. | deerdeerdeer wrote: | Congrats Jan!! :) | karaterobot wrote: | This is good advice, plainly written. Thanks for the resource! | simulo wrote: | Thanks! Feel free to poke me if there in an occasional sentence | that is not as plainly written as it could be:) | rsavage wrote: | Looks interesting. Awesome work putting this together! | | I will bookmark and take a proper read when I can. | | For the website - might be worth running it through a spell | checker. | | E.g found this pretty quickly "Early in the reserach session" | defanor wrote: | Indeed, I spotted a couple of typos too: "This book is | free/libe", "to provide detaile information". | | Also noticed that foreground colors are defined in the HTML | version, while the background color isn't, and the blockquote | foreground color doesn't meet the AAA level of WCAG contrast | guidelines even if white background is assumed. That's rather | nitpicky, and generally it's fine, but it feels like materials | on UI and UX should better follow common guidelines. | simulo wrote: | Ohno, "reserach" is my favorite spelling mistake. I regularly | search-replace for it and regularly create new reseraches. | mustafabisic1 wrote: | Do you write on a regular basis? | | Is there a place to subscribe? | | I'd definitely love to hear out your process of creating these. | | P.S. I created a resource for remote-working parents. It's a | weekly newsletter for now, but who knows, I might have enough | value one day to do what you did here. | | https://thursdaydigest.com/ | simulo wrote: | I do blog on https://fordes.de (with an RSS to subscribe to) | mustafabisic1 wrote: | Nice, thanks! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-11 23:00 UTC)