Digging into Atomic UX Research

Textile week 39 note

This week, as part of the start of the Product Design Strategy, I’ve begun exploring the Atomic UX Research framework. As Textile begins to implement user-centred design and design thinking, it is important to begin to think about how to establish a strategy horizon. This is especially the case in terms of having disparate engagement inputs in terms of community, partnerships and growth. Atomic UX is a method to not just organise research knowledge, but an approach to move from experiments to facts to insights and then finally to recommendations. Whilst being similar to classic double diamond design thinking in approach, it is different in that it seeks to link these with establishing pattern finding in research inputs. It’s still early days in exploring this, but it does seem to require establishing and maintaining a tag and/or categorisation taxonomy from the get go. All in all, Atomic UX Research is a relatively new approach but potentially powerful for a technical research led organisation such as Textile, and could potentially be used to find links between technology and user research.