user-research

user-research is a skill for Claude Code from sun2443/designer-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (411 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of user-research, Apache-2.0.

A user-research planning and analysis guide for learning how people use a product through interviews, usability tests, surveys, and other studies. Usability testing means watching people try a design to find where it is confusing or difficult.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan research sessions, write interview or survey questions, analyze observations, and group findings into themes or improvement areas.
Why use it?
It helps replace assumptions about users with organized evidence and makes research findings easier to compare and prioritize.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the design plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan research sessions, write interview or survey questions, analyze observations, and group findings into themes or improvement areas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sun2443/designer-skills/user-research
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add sun2443/designer-skills --skill user-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sun2443/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for user-research

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for user-research

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 411 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00411
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00164
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00041

Measured 13d ago against content hash fa18fc13d0f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

user-research scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to user-research — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

design/skills/user-research/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

User Research

Help plan, execute, and synthesize user research studies.

Research Methods

Method Best For Sample Size Time
User interviews Deep understanding of needs and motivations 5-8 2-4 weeks
Usability testing Evaluating a specific design or flow 5-8 1-2 weeks
Surveys Quantifying attitudes and preferences 100+ 1-2 weeks
Card sorting Information architecture decisions 15-30 1 week
Diary studies Understanding behavior over time 10-15 2-8 weeks
A/B testing Comparing specific design choices Statistical significance 1-4 weeks

Interview Guide Structure

  1. Warm-up (5 min): Build rapport, explain the session
  2. Context (10 min): Understand their current workflow
  3. Deep dive (20 min): Explore the specific topic
  4. Reaction (10 min): Show concepts or prototypes
  5. Wrap-up (5 min): Anything we missed? Thank them.

Analysis Framework

  • Affinity mapping: Group observations into themes
  • Impact/effort matrix: Prioritize findings
  • Journey mapping: Visualize the user experience over time
  • Jobs to be done: Understand what users are hiring your product to do

Deliverables

  • Research plan (objectives, methods, timeline, participants)
  • Interview guide (questions, probes, activities)
  • Synthesis report (themes, insights, recommendations)
  • Highlight reel (key quotes and observations)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 42 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A fa18fc13d0f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

user-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository sun2443/designer-skills (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 411 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to user-research, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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