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Simply by asking for their availability on the company premises and sometimes minutes is enough . Sampling can be avoided In the consumer field, research presupposes statistical sampling work to identify users with certain attributes representing the target audience. However, in a corporate context it is often sufficient to recruit any user taken from the group to which the project is aimed for example, if we turn to our dealer network, each of them will be a recruitable user. If we need to segment e.g. only dealers for less than months we will almost always already have the data to do so. There is no need for compensation Users are motivated to participate because the survey allows them to have more effective tools for their work. From my experiences I have learned that in these cases people are happy to be able to make their opinion heard this also affects their motivation. When the application is launched in the company.
We will be able to communicate that real users collaborated on the design, which is a photo editing servies good promotion strategy among colleagues and partners. Users can coincide with stakeholders In the corporate environment, it often happens that users are also stakeholders at an organizational and decision-making level, and therefore can be interviewed under both profiles. As such they can also be involved in workshops for the conception and co-design of the product that they themselves will use. Field investigations It is possible to interact with users in their real working environment , i.e. in the best context to understand their habits, objectives and difficulties. Instead of organizing tests and interviews in the laboratory we can agree with people to meet them directly on the company premises or in any case in the places where they carry out their activities.

The user on the next workstation user-of-the-next-station The benefits of user research in the corporate sector are summarized by Kazden Cattapan, product designer at Shopify, a leading e-commerce platform The best part about designing a product for internal use is the lack of distance with the people you're designing for. Cattapan talks about his experience in designing a platform that allows Shopify employees to monitor inventories and manage shipments of individual e-commerce sites the greatest benefits came from observing internal users on a daily basis, listening to their problems and by understanding their workflow.
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