Visual Data Collection: Making Sense of Tally Sheets
Guest Contribution
For those of you who are wondering exactly what Visual Data Collection (VDC) is, you can read my article “Increasing Your Research Velocity with Visual Data Collection,” which describes the method in full detail. You can also read my subsequent Discovery column, “Sensemaking with Annotations,” which covers the various annotations I use for VDC notetaking. That column also provides insights on the use of annotations to inspire those using the VDC method to extend their set of annotations and adapt the method to their UX research workflow.
In this column, I’ll focus on how to go about collecting useful annotations from the discussion guides from various UX research sessions into one place, using handwritten tally sheets. Once you’ve completed a study, you’ll analyze these tally sheets and report your findings—perhaps by adding your insights to a storage repository for future curation. I’ll provide some examples of tally sheets on which I compiled data I had collected during UX research sessions. (You could alternatively use a spreadsheet to accomplish the same task.) Read More
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