Democratized learning, grounded theory, personas, org charts — oh my

work from Q1–2 2019

PDF version:

Case Study Presentation.pdf

Contents

  1. Context: research at Asurion

  2. The opportunity:

    Hearing a common question

    [interlude] a stroke of luck

    Collaborative framing as a path to buy-in

  3. The study

    Approach and research design

    Exploring the problem space through co-creation

    Understanding the human context through ethnographic immersion

    Getting buy-in for insights before we had them

  4. Insights & artifacts

    A library is the nuggets you tag along the way

    A beautiful mess

    1. Personas: a grounded theory of problem-solving styles
    2. Insights: guiding principles, actionable information, key observations
  5. Share outs & activation

    The rollout

    Share screen, record, upload PDFs, hit publish

    Who doesn’t love a good card deck?

    Putting it all to work, with co-creation!

    Climbing the ladder together

  6. Impacts: Ripples, waves, and rocking the boat

    Research competency: designers as partners in research

    Product decisions: a persona, no longer left behind

    A research practice: making the task force permanent