Handbook

UX Design techniques (blueprint)

**Purpose:** Deep, **project-agnostic** guides for core UX research and design techniques — purpose, when to use, execution, and interpreting results.

UX Design techniques (blueprint)

Purpose: Deep, project-agnostic guides for core UX research and design techniques — purpose, when to use, execution, and interpreting results.

Evidence-based design: UX techniques are methods for reducing uncertainty, not taste. Match generative vs evaluative and attitudinal vs behavioral methods to the question; document what would change your mind. Pair this folder with project artifacts in docs/design/research/.

Audience: Teams adopting UX / UI Design. Core knowledge: UX-DESIGN.md. Bridge: UX / UI Design ↔ SDLC ↔ PDLC bridge.

Design phases and techniques

flowchart LR Discover[Discover: interviews inquiry analytics] --> Define[Define: affinity JTBD journeys] Define --> Develop[Develop: sprints prototyping IA] Develop --> Deliver[Deliver: usability A-B tests]

How to use this folder

Discovery and evaluation: user-research.md — method choice, planning, synthesis, repository habits, usability testing.
Behavior and patterns: interaction-design.md — principles, navigation and input, feedback, responsive and gesture expectations.

The double diamond and cross-cutting summaries in UX-DESIGN.md frame how these techniques fit the wider UX body of knowledge.

Technique guides

Technique	Focus	Deep guide
User research	Taxonomy, planning, ethics, synthesis, repository, usability testing	`user-research.md`
Interaction design	Principles, navigation/input/feedback, responsive & gestures, system patterns	`interaction-design.md`
User interviews	Semi-structured generative interviews	`UX-DESIGN.md`
Usability testing	Tasks, metrics, SUS, moderation	`user-research.md`
Design sprints	Time-boxed collaborative design	`UX-DESIGN.md`
A/B experimentation	Hypotheses, power, guardrails	`user-research.md`
Heuristic evaluation	Expert review, severity	`UX-DESIGN.md`
Card sorting / tree testing	IA validation	`user-research.md`
Journey mapping	Touchpoints, pain, opportunities	`user-research.md`
Design critique	Structured feedback	`UX-DESIGN.md`
Prototyping	Fidelity, tools, testing	`interaction-design.md`

Keep project-specific accessibility audits in docs/product/ and remediation plans in docs/development/, not in this file.

Canonical source

Edit https://github.com/autowww/blueprints/blob/main/disciplines/product/ux-design/techniques/README.md first; regenerate with docs/build-handbook.py.