Karina van SchaardenburgInterview
User experience researcher (Twitter)
Adapted from Karina van Schaardenburg's interview on Uses This, published 16 March 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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Most days I get by with my 2.66GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro and a 4TB WD harddrive where we store video files of past research sessions.
I connect the participants' machine to a Dell U2410 monitor so I can view their screen as they use Twitter.
To record these sessions, I use the HVR-A1U 1080i HDV camera from Sony.
When I conduct interviews, in person or over the phone I use a Zoom H4N voice recorder, which I love.
Communication
Productivity
I use Google Docs for all my reports and research documents.
Media
To record mobile sessions, I use iMovie and import the video from the camera.
Other
We use SurveyMonkey to run surveys.
I use GoToMeeting to stream sessions live so team members can follow along.
To record sessions to archive and play back later, I use Silverback.