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✨ Method Advisor

Describe your project and what you want to learn from your users in plain language. It matches keywords in your text to the method taxonomy and suggests methods that fit — a simple rule-based matcher, not AI, so each suggestion explains exactly which words matched.

Tip: mention your stage (early exploration, ideation, testing), and whether you care about numbers or reasons.

Not sure how to phrase it? See which words signal what

Include words like these in your description and the Advisor steers toward the matching methods. These map to the same tags you see on each method card:

Exploratory — understand, discover, explore, why, needs, pain points, motivation, daily routine, behavior, experience, journey

Generative — generate, brainstorm, ideate, concept, ideas, co-design, innovate, imagine

Evaluative — test, evaluate, validate, usability, assess, check, improve, refine, prototype

Quantitative — measure, how many, metric, number, rate, percentage, benchmark, A/B, conversion, analytics

Qualitative — why, reason, in-depth, story, opinion, perception

Behavioral — observe, what they do, watch, workflow, task, real use, in the field

Attitudinal — what they say, prefer, satisfaction, feel, emotion, attitude, survey

Project stage — early/planning: scope, define, requirements, kickoff · live: launch, monitor, in market, analytics

Example: “We want to measure which checkout layout performs better” leans Quantitative + Evaluative; “understand why nurses skip a step” leans Exploratory + Qualitative.

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