We produce a lot of video At GDS, we produce at least 200 hours of user research video per month. If participants give their permission, we record their user research sessions in our GDS user research lab, in external labs …
If you're thinking about building a user research lab, here are some important things you should think about and do. And it's not about tech.
When we built our user research lab, we avoided putting white work surfaces in the research space as much as possible. This is because white surfaces glare.
We had a couple issues with the sound in our lab's research studio - the space in which we research with users - which we’ve dramatically improved. In this post, I’ll share what was causing those problems and how we fixed them.
We originally published this blog post about 4 months ago on a makeshift Tumblr, which we used to journal the building of our lab.
This is the viewing room in our new user research lab, filled to the brim with people from across a project team - developers, designers and service managers. In short, everyone involved in making a service for government.
The smartest labs we’ve seen have their viewing room walls painted dark grey. In choosing wall paints for our own viewing room, we were inspired to do some research. Here’s what we found.
One-way glass is transparent on one side but opaque on the other. It's often used in research labs and allows observers to watch participants without being seen.