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Kayla Sween
Kayla Sween

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Does your organization talk to users before starting development on a project?

At An Event Apart Chicago this week, there were many sessions that made mention of talking to users, getting users involved at the beginning of a project, and how it helps ensure that we, as developers, are solving the right problems. So my questions to you are: Does your organization do user research at the start a project? What do you do to get the information you need?

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Kurt Kemple

I'm not sure about a lot of where I work but I know our team doesn't necessarily talk to users before starting a product because generally products are started after talking to users about other things. In other words products aren't started without users already having asked for it.

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Kayla Sween

That’s awesome! So before any planning ever starts, you know exactly how it’ll help them.

Thanks, Kurt!