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A Guide to Design Research Tools

Technology can be a great help when it comes to organizing your research on an ongoing project or in new product development. If you're looking for better ways to get organized, the platforms, apps and guides listed here can help you get there.

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"Universal Methods of Design" by Bella Martin & Bruce Hanington

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

Universal Methods of Design is an outstanding compilation of 100 different research methods compiled in alphabetical order. It makes research methods so easy to follow and a great recourse to comeback to time and again.

Universal Methods of Design is an outstanding compilation of 100 different research methods compiled in alphabetical order. It makes research methods so easy to follow and a great recourse to comeback to time and again.

See at amazon.com

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Otter.ai- Voice Meeting Notes

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

Otter is a simple way to transcribe speech to text. It uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to give you an accurate script of long speeches and interviews that saves you so much time.

Otter is a simple way to transcribe speech to text. It uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to give you an accurate script of long speeches and interviews that saves you so much time.

See at otter.ai

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Another Lens - A research tool for conscientious creatives

Submitted by: Sergio Toledo

How can you design for everyone without understanding the full picture?

To help examine how bias influences our worldview, Airbnb Design partnered with News Deeply, a journalism startup dedicated to providing in-depth coverage of the world’s most critical challenges. The end result was the Shadow to Light installation, an experience that pressed us to recognize our biases and grapple with our limitations.

While this tool was made primarily for designers, we believe all creatives can apply aspects of it to their work. Next time you find yourself brainstorming, building, or polishing—we invite you to take a moment to challenge your reasoning. Together we can diminish the effects of bias within the creative process.

How can you design for everyone without understanding the full picture?

To help examine how bias influences our worldview, Airbnb Design partnered with News Deeply, a journalism startup dedicated to providing in-depth coverage of the world’s most critical challenges. The end result was the Shadow to Light installation, an experience that pressed us to recognize our biases and grapple with our limitations.

While this tool was made primarily for designers, we believe all creatives can apply aspects of it to their work. Next time you find yourself brainstorming, building, or polishing—we invite you to take a moment to challenge your reasoning. Together we can diminish the effects of bias within the creative process.

See at airbnb.design

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Miro

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

Miro provides an organized space to virtually brainstorm and share your work in realtime with your team. It gives you the freedom to organize your data just as you would in your own space.

Use cases for Miro include meetings and presentations (their video feature allows for face-to-face interactions), brainstorming and ideation, strategy and research, mind mapping, product management, and more. Miro is also seamlessly integrated with other apps like Google Drive so you never have to leave the platform to find what you need.

Miro provides an organized space to virtually brainstorm and share your work in realtime with your team. It gives you the freedom to organize your data just as you would in your own space.

Use cases for Miro include meetings and presentations (their video feature allows for face-to-face interactions), brainstorming and ideation, strategy and research, mind mapping, product management, and more. Miro is also seamlessly integrated with other apps like Google Drive so you never have to leave the platform to find what you need.

See at miro.com

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Wordclouds

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

Wordclouds is a great visual tool to add to your research. It helps analyze your text and create a word cloud with the most used words from your text. Wordcloud also gives you plenty of options to edit and personalize it to your specific needs.

Wordclouds is a great visual tool to add to your research. It helps analyze your text and create a word cloud with the most used words from your text. Wordcloud also gives you plenty of options to edit and personalize it to your specific needs.

See at wordclouds.com

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Purdue Online Writing Lab

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

The Purdue OWL is an online resource to help perfect all your writing. It provides great guidelines for everything from general writing tips to citation and research resources.

The Purdue OWL is an online resource to help perfect all your writing. It provides great guidelines for everything from general writing tips to citation and research resources.

See at owl.purdue.edu

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