How User Research is different in East Asia and North America

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Kontech Insights
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sonya SHI
COO, CO-Founder
(6)
3
Project
Academic experience
120 hours per learner
Learner
Canada
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Market research Market expansion Product or service launch
Skills
user research research methodologies blogs research
Details

We want to share the knowledge with the western companies that want to expand their business to East Asia.

We would like the student to help with the research and consolidate the results. We will use the findings for industry conference to educate the western companies about East Asia market.

Deliverables

1) Understand User Research Industry

Get familiar with the industry by attending industry related webinars and reading through blogs. e.g. Nielsen Norman Group, Medium

2) Study the existing East Asia Agencies

Search local agencies that help western companies to expand their business in East Asia, what are the successful and failure cases.

3) Compare the different User Research methods been used in East Asia Market

By talking with industry experts and local people, compare how differently western research methods are adapted to these countries.

Mentorship

Students will connect directly with senior researchers/managers for mentorship throughout the project.

We will be able to provide students with:

- Coaching student in the end to end process of User-Centered Design / User Experience / User Research

- Guidance in translating user insights into product features

- Advice in communication and project management skills

- Expose students to UX industry related conference

About the company

Company
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2 - 10 employees
Technology

Kontech is a B2B SaaS platform that helps Western companies test drive their products in Asia.

Having been in the product innovation industry for over 20 years, our team has observed the consistent pain points that the product development team are facing: language issue, culture difference, etc. when developing products for the Asia market.

Thus Kontech aims to accelerate the innovation process by providing a fast market validation platform that connects product development teams directly with target Asia users to enable international brands to build and sustain competitive advantages.