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The biggest worry with bringing in outside research help is that you will end up with another contractor to manage on top of everything else. Akraya's embedded UX research model is built to avoid that. You get a dedicated researcher who works inside your product team, while Akraya handles the management, continuity, an
Most enterprise teams start looking for a UX research agency for one of two reasons. Either the research backlog is growing faster than the internal team can handle it, or an important product decision is coming up and nobody has enough time to run the research before that decision has to be made. That's usually when t
If you ask for more time to research, you risk being seen as the person slowing the launch down. But if you skip the research to hit the deadline and something goes wrong after launch, everyone asks why the team didn't catch it earlier. When deadlines get tight, research is often the first thing teams cut because cutti
Most UX research studies take 4 weeks to several months. A product sprint often lasts just two weeks. That creates a timing problem. By the time the research is finished, the team may have already made the decision it was supposed to inform. Meanwhile, more research requests keep piling up. Akraya's rapid UX research i
Imagine spending six months automating an approval process, only to find out the real problem was that managers did not trust the data they were using to make decisions. A week of UX research could have uncovered that before the team committed months of work. With it, you could have changed direction early, saved the e
The short version Managed UX research and staff augmentation both add research capacity, but your team plays a very different role in each one. Key takeaways вњ“ The core difference: with staff augmentation you add a researcher to your team and still decide what to study, guide the work, and make sure it answers the ri
When research demand grows faster than your team can handle, hiring more researchers seems like the obvious answer. The problem is that hiring rarely moves as fast as the backlog. Approvals can take months, open roles can sit unfilled, and many large technology companies are operating under hiring freezes. Meanwhile, t
The short version On-demand UX research is a managed service model that gives product teams a way to add research capacity the moment a decision needs it, then scale it back when things slow down, without carrying a full-time hire through the quiet months. Key takeaways вњ“ Why teams use it: to handle busy periods with
If you've already decided to outsource some of your UX research, the next decision is choosing the right kind of partner. That choice affects more than price. It determines how quickly research can get moving, how much your internal team still has to manage, how easily you can scale the work, and who is ultimately resp
As UX research demand grows, adding more full-time researchers is not always the easiest way to keep up.
Sooner or later, someone in finance is going to look at your UX research team and ask what the company got back for the money. It usually lands during budget planning, when every team is being asked to justify its line item and the answers are getting a hard second look. The problem is that most research leaders answer
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