Insights at Your Pace

Silver Scribe can deliver actionable insights at any stage of development. Whether you’re beginning ideation or halfway through your feature backlog, we can help you uncover user experience pitfalls and discover untapped value.

For decades, product teams followed a clear rhythm: research, design, test, build. There was time to explore user needs and validate ideas before anything shipped.

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Black and white illustration of a machine with three blocks labeled 'TEST', 'RESEARCH', and 'DESIGN' on a conveyor belt.

AI has changed product development. Digital experiences that used to take months can now be built in a day. Within a week, the new app is launched, but often the learning stages are skipped. The risk: low adoption and even lower usage. Just because you can create a full-fledged app doesn’t mean people need or want it. Intentional, action-oriented testing keeps you true to customer needs along the way.

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Black and white illustration of a computer monitor with a coding prompt and a person with curly hair sitting at a desk, looking at the screen.
A sketch of a person with curly hair wearing a checkered shirt, looking at a computer monitor displaying an app interface, with the time 6:14 PM shown on the screen.
A sketch of a person with curly hair wearing a checkered shirt, looking at a computer monitor displaying an app interface, with the time 6:14 PM shown on the screen.

Silver Scribe Research helps you test assumptions at any stage, so you can move quickly and build with confidence.

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Drawing of a machine with boxes labeled 'TEST,' 'RESEARCH,' 'DESIGN,' and 'BUILD,' and a bag labeled 'Silver Scribe Research à la Carte'.

Research Offerings

We offer full stack user experience research. Learn more about the approach we deploy depending on the stage of your project.

GENERATIVE

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Purpose: Explore user needs, behaviors, and pain points to inspire new ideas, products, and lines of business

When to use this piece? Before or early in the design process

Goal: Identify and prioritize problems, opportunities, and behavioral archetypes

Methods: User interviews, ethnographic studies, focus groups, open card sorts, diary studies, data mining and analysis

Scope of business impact:

  • 2-3 years of strategic product direction

  • Deep understanding of user needs

  • Discovery of lowest friction path to purchase and continued customer loyalty

  • Investment starts at $100k and a 12-week turnaround

FORMATIVE

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Purpose: Create and refine designs for target archetypes and discard solutions that do not fit their needs

When to use this piece? During the design process while refining prototypes and applications

Goal: Measure how well a product meets user needs

Methods: Wireframe and prototype tests, early usability studies, process mapping, tree tests, closed card sorts

Scope of business impact:

  • Fast design feedback to reduce risk and increase confidence

  • Improve product findability and usability

  • Investment starts at $5000 and a 1-week turnaround

EVALUATIVE

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Purpose: Assess product usability, effectiveness, and performance

When to use this piece? Throughout the product lifecycle and post launch

Goal: Measure how well a product meets user needs

Methods: Usability tests, UX surveys, heuristic evaluations, A/B tests

Scope of business impact:

  • Fast design feedback to reduce risk and increase confidence

  • Improve product findability and usability

  • Investment starts at $5000 and a 1-week turnaround

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