Leila runs a design org of twenty-two and spends most of her time on the parts of the job nobody photographs: critique, prioritisation, and telling engineers no. She teaches design systems and product craft with an emphasis on decisions rather than deliverables. Her portfolio review module has been used as onboarding material at three companies she has never worked for.
User Research for Product Teams
Talking to customers without leading them to the answer you wanted.
- Completion rate
- 85%
- Free previews
- 1
- Total time
- 5h 34m
30-day refund, no questions asked
- 5h 34m, lifetime access
- Learn on desktop, tablet and phone
- Verifiable certificate on completion
- AI tutor with full course context
Training a team?
Volume pricing from five seats, with assignment, reminders and completion reporting included.
See team plans →What you will be able to do
- Run an interview without leading the participant
- Recruit a sample that is not just your friendliest customers
- Analyse qualitative data systematically
- Present findings that actually move a decision
Skills this course develops
Each maps to the same taxonomy your organization’s roles are defined in, so progress here moves your skill profile.
About this course
Practical research craft for teams without a dedicated researcher. Interview technique, recruiting, analysis that does not collapse into anecdote, and how to present findings so they change the roadmap rather than decorate it.
Requirements
- None
Curriculum
3 modules · 11 lessons · 5h 34m
Technique, with real recordings including the mistakes.
- Questions that lead, and their fixesVideoPreview20m
- Silence as a techniqueVideo14m
- Annotated interview: what went wrongVideo28m
- Lab: run and record an interviewAssignment75m
Your instructors
Marco has shipped consumer products to twelve million users and killed rather more than he shipped. He teaches product management as a discipline of evidence, not of frameworks, and he is happy to argue with anyone who prefers the frameworks. His discovery module includes real customer interview recordings, with his own mistakes left in.
What learners say
3,392 reviews
- Nathan ColeOperations DirectorRated 5.0 out of 53 months ago
Watched it over three weeks of commutes. The transcripts are accurate enough that I could read on the train and watch the demos later. That is a small thing that made the whole course possible for me.
- Yuki NakamuraData ScientistRated 5.0 out of 54 months ago
The instructor is honest about what does not work, which is rarer than it should be. There is a whole lesson on a failed approach and why it failed. I learned more from that than from most successful case studies.
- Camille DuboisDesignerRated 3.0 out of 55 months ago
Solid content, but I came in from a non-technical background and the assumed knowledge in module four caught me out. The prerequisites could be clearer about that. Everything before it was excellent.
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