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Design Research Skills
by MC DeanPluginResearch something
Helps you plan user interviews and turn research notes into personas and journey maps
The problem it solves
You finished five user interviews and now face pages of notes, with a readout due on Friday.
For Product designersUX researchersProduct managers
- Before
- You reread every transcript, copy quotes onto sticky notes and group them by hand.
- After
- Your agent drafts themes with quotes, personas and a journey map from your notes, using a named method for each.
- Stars
- ★ 3.2k
- License
- MIT
- Cost
- Free
- For
- Claude Code
- Contents
- Instructions only
Overview
Design Research is a Claude Code plugin from the Designer Skills collection by MC Dean. It adds 14 user-research skills and 4 commands: interview scripts, interview summaries, personas, empathy maps, journey maps, affinity diagrams, survey and usability-test plans. You give it a product idea, a transcript or your research notes, and it writes the plan or the synthesis as text you can edit. It suits designers, researchers and product people who run their own user research.
Each skill says when to use it and which neighbouring skill fits better, so the agent picks the right method instead of a generic summary.
Try these first
Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.
- Summarize this interview transcript into themes, a supporting quote for each and action items: [paste transcript]First try
- /design-research:interview Write an interview script for people who cancelled their [product] subscription.
- /design-research:discover Build personas, an empathy map and a journey map for [product or feature] from these notes: [paste notes]
- /design-research:test-plan Plan a usability study for our new checkout flow.
Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.
What you get
From the creator's documentation.
| Output | What it is | Reads |
|---|---|---|
| Interview scripts | A structured guide with warm-up, core questions and wrap-up | What you paste |
| Interview summaries | Themes, supporting quotes and action items from one transcript | What you paste |
| Personas and maps | Personas, empathy maps, jobs-to-be-done and journey maps | What you paste |
| Synthesis | Affinity diagrams that cluster many notes into themes and insights | What you paste |
| Study plans | Survey, diary-study and usability-test plans with participant criteria | What you paste |
| Commands | discover, interview, synthesize and test-plan chain several skills in one go | What you paste |
Good to know
You have a few interview transcripts or notes and need themes, personas or a journey map. The plugin's skills structure that synthesis, and its commands chain them into a full research cycle.
Limits
- The output is only as good as the research you give it. With no real data it can draft personas, so mark those as assumptions until you check them with users.
- The plugin writes text documents; it does not run interviews, send surveys or draw diagrams in a design tool.
Notes by Agent Flows Hub (original project name: design-research), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. design-research plugin: skills and commands · Designer Skills: getting started
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