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Scaling User Research with AI: Continuous Discovery of User Needs in Minutes
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025 • DesignOps Summit 2025
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Scaling User Research with AI: Continuous Discovery of User Needs in Minutes
Speakers: Joerg Beringer and Thomas Geis
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Summary

Product Context Analyzer (PCA) is an AI-powered tool that automates LLM-based user research, enabling product teams to quickly discover and analyze the context in which a product is used. With just a single prompt or an uploaded interview transcript, PCA generates structured user research outputs that match the quality and format expected by professional design and product teams, enabling immediate integration into established workflows. Outputs include as-is scenarios, personas, empathy maps, user journey maps, desired outcomes, detailed task flows, user requirements, and user stories. By dramatically reducing the need for time- and labor-intensive primary research, PCA allows teams to continuously learn about user needs without requiring specialist skills or deep expertise in user research methods. This approach helps product teams move efficiently from early ideas to actionable design with a clear understanding of user requirements. In this session, we will demonstrate how PCA transforms a single input prompt into a structured knowledge graph that connects high-level strategic insights with detailed task flows and user stories.

Key Insights

  • AI can transform secondary user research by synthesizing vast existing information into actionable UX artifacts.

  • Jakob Nielsen recently endorsed a workflow prioritizing secondary research before primary user research.

  • Product Context Analyzer produces outputs like journey maps, task hierarchies, affinity diagrams, persona fact sheets, and user story maps automatically from a prompt or interview transcripts.

  • The tool supports input from either broad task descriptions or detailed interview transcripts.

  • The system structures user requirements in standardized, readable phrasing suitable for both UX and regulated industry contexts.

  • It incorporates concepts from Jobs-To-Be-Done and OOUX frameworks to offer desired outcomes and task objects.

  • Export options include CSV files and printer-friendly PDFs, facilitating easy sharing and further processing.

  • Currently, the system allows only one transcript upload per project and lacks multi-user shareable access but this is on the roadmap.

  • The AI insights link back to source data internally via knowledge graphs, ensuring traceability.

  • The tool is applicable across industries including medical devices, software, automotive, research institutes, and public services.

Notable Quotes

"The secondary first, primary second sequence may seem a numerical mismatch, but it is the way to go."

"Our product simply sucks everything out of the open AI system and processes it with a knowledge graph based on ISO standards."

"You enter a single prompt, like washing your own car, and the system analyzes the whole context and returns research artifacts."

"When designers describe their problem, they often describe a pain point, but you have to enter the user’s actual task."

"The output is not a requirements statement but a description of what is happening in the context."

"The task objects are central to a popular conceptual design approach called OOUX."

"Product managers appreciate the jobs to be done desired outcome statements because they are not overly detailed but actionable."

"This is real serious analysis, not pre-prepared or fake data."

"The system is live now analyzing audience-submitted tasks and producing results in minutes."

"Secondary research becomes a primary choice in user research in the age of AI."

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