{"id":1094,"date":"2013-02-07T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2013-01-28T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T23:59:57","slug":"use-body-language-to-improve-your-user-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/use-body-language-to-improve-your-user-research\/","title":{"rendered":"use body language to improve your user research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a great blog post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designstaff.org\">Design Staff<\/a> about how <a title=\"How to hack your body language for better interviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designstaff.org\/articles\/body-language-2013-01-24.html\">body language can impact your user research<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great post about reading the body language of the participant in your user research to see if they&#8217;re uncomfortable, and what you can do with your own behavior and body language to try to make them more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>I always try to start out my research by reminding participants that we&#8217;re looking at early design thinking, and thus they can be frank with their opinions. \u00a0I also try to be encouraging without being leading, and I&#8217;m definitely grateful for the time that they take to share their thoughts with me. \u00a0I try to be good with body language, but that&#8217;s probably the hardest one to know if you&#8217;re doing the right thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a great blog post from Design Staff about how body language can impact your user research. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great post about reading the body language of the participant in your user research to see if they&#8217;re uncomfortable, and what you can do with your own behavior and body language to try to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/use-body-language-to-improve-your-user-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">use body language to improve your user research<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}