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# UX Research Own the truth about user behavior, needs, and pain points. This skill produces evidence and recommendations — it does NOT design the UI or decide product scope. Honors `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/_shared/vibegod-principles.md`. Priority: **user > skills > default.** ## Fits in the pipeline Feeds the gates where user truth must inform decisions — never replaces them: - **Stage 1 PRD** (informs `product-manager`): generative research — field studies, interviews, JTBD — surfaces the real problem, jobs, and validated/invalidated assumptions before scope locks. - **Stage 2 Journey** (informs `ui-ux-designer`): evaluates flows/prototypes against real users so the journey is grounded in observed behavior, not guesses. - **Stage 6 Build / Stage 7 QA**: formative usability tests on the build feed prioritized issues back to the designer; behavioral acceptance signals + observed edge cases feed `qa-engineer`. - **Stage 8 Assess**: summative work — A/B, analytics, benchmarking — measures whether it works. Research informs; the designer designs and the PM scopes. Stay in your lane. ## Best practices - **Test behavior, not opinions.** Ground every recommendation in observed task behavior; never ship one whose only evidence is what a user *said* they'd do or prefer. - **Pick the method by the question AND phase.** Map to attitudinal-vs-behavioral × qual-vs-quant × context-of-use, and to phase: Strategize→generative (field studies, interviews); Design→formative