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User Research Methods · asgard-ai-platform | DecimalAI

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User Research Methods

asgard-ai-platform/soc-user-research

Source asgard-ai-platform/skills ↗License MIT

Design and conduct user research using interviews, focus groups, surveys, and field observation.

SkillScore83Maintained

Automatic

Design & UX Review pack

Last verified 8/28/2026

What it changes

Passed 20 of 24 test cases with the skill, and 14 of 24 without it.

Without skill58%

With skill83%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Recommends a sample size of 8 to 15 participants.
Specifies a sample size between 5 and 10 observation sessions.
Proposes affinity mapping to group qualitative observations into themes.

and 5 more in the full report

6 fixed14 passed either way4 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +25 pp
Tokens: +7%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -30%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/28/2026v120 of 24 cases passed with skill

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/asgard-ai-platform-soc-user-research.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

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See it in action

One of 6 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 6

Prompt

We are seeing a 40% drop-off rate on our mobile checkout screen right before customers submit their order, and we need to investigate what is causing this friction. Can you build out a complete user research plan for this project? Please structure the plan to cover our key research questions, the research method you recommend along with its rationale, participant sampling details and target criteria, the full discussion guide or survey instrument, and our analysis strategy.

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Recommends qualitative depth interviews rather than a quantitative survey to investigate why drop-offs occur.	Missed	Passed
Frames questions in the discussion guide around past actual checkout attempts rather than hypothetical future scenarios.	Missed	Passed

case-01 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/28/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md110 lines3 files

User Research Methods

Overview

User research uncovers what people need, want, and do — through direct observation and conversation, not assumptions. This skill covers four core methods: depth interviews, focus groups, surveys, and field observation, plus when to use each.

Framework

IRON LAW: Method Follows Question

Choose the method based on what you need to learn, not what's convenient.
"Why" questions → Interviews/Observation (qualitative)
"How many" questions → Surveys (quantitative)
"What do they really do" → Observation (behavioral)

Running a survey to answer "why" produces misleading data.

Method Selection

Method	Best For	Sample	Depth	Cost
Depth Interview	Understanding motivations, pain points, mental models	8-15 people	Very high	Medium
Focus Group	Exploring reactions, generating ideas, social dynamics	6-10 per group, 2-3 groups	Medium	Medium
Survey	Measuring prevalence, preferences, demographics at scale	100+ responses	Low	Low-Med
Field Observation	Understanding actual behavior in context (not self-reported)	5-10 sessions	Very high	High

Depth Interview Guide

Warm-up: Build rapport (2 min) — "Tell me about your role/day"
Context: Understand their world (5 min) — "Walk me through the last time you..."
Core questions: Explore the topic (20 min) — Open-ended, no leading questions
Probing: Go deeper on interesting threads — "Tell me more about that", "Why?"
Wrap-up: Summarize and confirm (3 min) — "Did I understand correctly that...?"

Rules:

Ask about past behavior, not hypothetical future ("What did you do?" not "What would you do?")
Never ask "Would you use this?" — people are terrible at predicting their own behavior
Silence is a tool — let them fill the gap

Track record

Benchmark

20 / 24

test cases passed, vs 14 / 24 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

asgard-ai-platform / skills

soc-user-research/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 8/3/2026Version v1Bundled 2 files

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User Research Methods

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Depth Interview Guide

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