"The client doesn't care about your tools—they just care about the information."

“The treasure maps that the scouts submitted were amazing. They were so creative and rich that one of our designers made a Google Slides gallery of the different journeys so that the team could reference them as we were building our journey map, and we still have that as a …

“We need to be in there, ensuring AI is continuously tweaked to account for potentially negative impacts and human unpredictability. That can only be done if humans are in there, testing and tweaking AI until it works for us. Working together, we can make quicker data-driven decisions and design services …

“In beta tests, it’s important to identify patterns. But we want to understand what’s causing those patterns, and to understand if they’re problems. Capturing those candid moments that users spend with the product allows you to determine when to take action—that’s key.”

“Getting kids to speak freely about things on their own time and in their own language can be a challenge, and that’s why we paired dscout’s mobile ethnographic approach with in-home interviews.”

"Okay, we're going to have a six-week study and we’ve locked in the primary questions we want to ask.”

"We chose a Diary study because we wanted to understand these folks over time, and we know everybody's day is a little different, but Mark and I really wanted to understand, "What are the highs and lows of working for a small business?" It was also important that we have …

"Though we had a single learning goal, we still prioritized a mixed methods approach, a survey from research, and product analytics with data science. This enabled us to understand what was happening, by unpacking both behavioral and attitudinal data, the what, and beginning to understand the why. By combining research …

"dscout helps non-researchers empathize with our users. The platform enables us to capture the voice of the customer and share their perspectives throughout Lenovo."

“We pulled only Lenovo product owners out of the screener for our mission, but have all other data back-logged."

“We believe that technology is smarter if it improves human outcomes. Smarter technology is human-centered technology, and our mission is to make smarter technology for all. At Lenovo, it's important to us for everyone to be able to equally access and experience our products and content.”

“One participant from our study who is 61 and has profound hearing loss expressed how appreciative he is of the flexibility and choices we offered by saying that, I was pleasantly surprised that the study organizers offered me choices on accessibility and the cherry on the ice cream was “we …

“[Brands need to start] thinking about brand expression in less rigid terms and about the ways that your brand can come to life. Gen Z is a group of people who are so incredibly aware of their own identity, culture, and of how brands work. And they're able to kind …

"I hadn’t talked to potential customers yet and started to think, ‘Do people really use a changing table or do they just avoid it? Do they not even go into the store?"

"I think what was a big aha moment is just how much the research would impact our go-to-market strategy and marketing language. And we've used so much of the keywords from the word cloud in our language, whether that's the website, or our pitch decks."