monthly dose of design
The Fundamentals of Layout Design for Insights
5 min read
Data visualization is easy with basic design layout design principles.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Innovation Management: Team Diversity (Part Six)
6 min read
The importance of cultivating a diverse team for innovation.
Nicholas Lee
Senior Designer at Northstar Research
Innovation Management: Barriers to Innovation (Part Five)
3 min read
The five main barriers to innovation.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Innovation Management: Disruptive Innovation (Part Four)
3 min read
Disruptive innovation: What it is and why it’s important to MR.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Innovation Management: Breakthrough/Radical Innovation (Part Three)
3 min read
Diving into breakthrough/radical innovation and how it applies to MR.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Innovation Management: Sustaining Innovation (Part Two)
4 min read
Digging deeper into “sustaining innovation” and its relevancy to MR.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Innovation Management (Part One)
4 min read
The first installment of a new 12-part series on innovation.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Combining Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile into a Single Framework (Part Seven)
4 min read
Combining Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile into one framework.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Agile Frameworks – Scrum (Part Six)
5 min read
Learn about the Agile framework Scrum and how can it benefit MR.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Agile Frameworks – Kanban (Part Five)
4 min read
What is Kanban and how can it benefit market researchers?
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Agile Principles for Market Research (Part Four)
5 min read
What is the Agile methodology? How can it benefit your organization?
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Combining the Lean Startup and Design Thinking for Market Research (Part Three)
4 min read
Combine the Lean Startup and Design Thinking strengths for innovation.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
How the Lean Startup Can Help You Reduce the Risk in Innovation (Part Two)
3 min read
Lean Startup what is it, why it’s relevant to you, and its advantages.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
New Ways of Working to Help Researchers Solve Problems, Test and Build Solutions (Part One)
3 min read
Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile are helpful ways of working.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Design as a Strategy (Part 3)
3 min read
Innovate your research with 4 design as strategy principles.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Using Design as a Process (Part 2)
4 min read
How you can use a design process to improve your services, products, or brand and provide more value to clients.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Design as an Aesthetic (Part 1)
4 min read
Companies that use design higher on the ladder tend to use design to support their overall business strategy.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
A Design Thinking Framework for Market Researchers
4 min read
Can we tailor a Design Thinking Framework for market researchers?
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Developing and Testing Your Design Thinking Ideas (Part 4)
5 min read
Taking your best ideas from paper to prototype.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Idea Generation For Market Researchers (Part 3)
4 min read
We continue to learn about design thinking with 3 fun techniques for idea generation.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Framing Your Insights With a “How Might We” Statement (Part 2)
4 min read
Think like a designer and unite your team and stakeholders by framing your insights with a “How Might We?” statement.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
UI Interactions (Part 4)
3 min read
The fourth installation on the fundamentals of building a digital platform.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Writing for Digital Platforms (Part 3)
4 min read
Learn how to craft strong and persuasive copy for digital.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
User Interface Design Basics (Part 2)
4 min read
Take your platform to the next level with an expert user interface.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Wireframing 101 for Market Researchers
4 min read
7 tips to build a reliable wireframe for online platforms.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Instructional and Onboarding Design
4 min read
Creating a digital platform to enable new research methodologies is a great way to easily onboard research participants.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Data Storytelling for Market Researchers
4 min read
May’s Monthly Dose of Design gives a helpful list on how to effectively tell a data-based story.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Design Considerations for AR/VR
4 min read
The importance of design in virtual and augmented reality.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Seven Principles of UX Design for Market Researchers
4 min read
An overview the basic principles of UX design for market researchers
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
The Essential Principles of Design Thinking for Market Researchers
3 min read
How design thinking can improve your overall approach to research
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
How to Design Research Game Concepts
4 min read
Gamifying research offers a look into players’ implicit and system 1 thinking
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
How to Effectively Brand Your Research Projects
4 min read
Determining the key design elements that make a research project recognisable and engaging
Emma Galdo
Director of Customer Success at Bloomfire at Bloomfire
Visualising Consumer Segmentations
4 min read
How to use interpretive visualisation to enhance consumer segmentation
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Distilling Data Into Infographics
4 min read
Design tips for creating visually appealing infographics
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
The Future of Communicating Quantitative Data
4 min read
Digital alternatives to quantitative output dashboards.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Using Creativity to Improve Qualitative Outputs
5 min read
Find out how to make your qualitative outputs delivery your brand identity and stand out in a variety of mediums in the latest edition of Monthly Dose...
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Improve Your Questionnaires with Visual Design
4 min read
Improve your questionnaires with visual design for higher respondent engagement.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Improve Your Discussion Guides with Visual Design
3 min read
In this Monthly Dose of Design, learn how to apply design principles to discussion guides.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Introducing Design Fundamentals For Researchers
4 min read
In this Monthly Dose of Design, get caught up with the fundamentals for market researchers and make your work stand out.
Emma Galvin
Creative Designer at Northstar Research
Achieving Visual Hierarchy for Non-designers – A Step by Step Guide
5 min read
Are you sharing your data in a way that looks great and is interesting enough to be read, understood and remembered?
Mahdis Nikou
How Not To Be Boring and Dull in the World of Market Research
5 min read
When it comes to branding, market research companies aren’t excluded from the need to do this.
Mahdis Nikou
A Monthly Dose of Design
2 min read
Introducing a new series that will explore topics related to design, branding and visual communications in the world of research.
Mahdis Nikou