Hi @Swetha00,
thank you so much for your interest.
What help are you seeking, is it on the research front or the design front?
Hmm, both is appreciated. Since I have been so far the only active contributor in that area, I always mixed user research and design in the process (e.g. doing user research, learning something that got me an idea; or designing something, than feeling like I lack insights and starting a user research call)
For the future, I hope we can improve the process, so that people working on a feature could ask questions that are either possible to answer based on existing research data, or that inspire future research work.
I scoped this specific call to help on research, because I must admit that I didn’t manage to do a lot of user research over the past months, and I’m seeing that we start to lack insights into user needs for some design decisions. However, there are also some design questions that are open for a long time, and help with those are definitely useful, too.
If you have a personal preference, please decide for yourself. Of course you are always free to change your focus over time.
What time commitment (hours/week or month) are you looking for?
There is general no obligation on specific commitments. Personally, I am definitely looking for a long-term co-contributor, maybe for several months or even more than a year. So far, I mostly did user research in bursts, e.g. one week with a lot of research sessions, than took a break. Depending on the process, a few hours per month would already help a lot.
If you prefer to only do one “project”, e.g. one sprint of research, this would also be a welcome contribution (!), but simply not the thing I had in mind when creating the call for help.
Thank you so much. Please let me know if you have further questions. If you want to talk to me, I happily invite you to schedule a meeting using my Nextcloud calendar or to drop me a personal note.