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User Research Domain Skill

Communication: User's language. Docs: English.

Purpose

User research and validation for product/startup development. Handles personas, user interviews, jobs-to-be-done, pain point mining, problem validation, survey design, and value proposition testing.

Context Discovery

Auto-Investigation

Check these signals before starting user research:

Discovery Questions

- question: "What user research do you need?"
  header: "Research Type"
  multiSelect: false
  options:
    - label: "Build user personas"
      description: "Create user archetypes and profiles"
    - label: "Conduct user interviews"
      description: "Talk to users to understand needs"
    - label: "Identify pain points"
      description: "Research user problems and frustrations"
    - label: "Jobs-to-be-done analysis"
      description: "Understand user motivations and context"
    - label: "Problem validation"
      description: "Validate if problem is worth solving"
    - label: "Value proposition design"
      description: "Define how product solves user problems"

- question: "What stage is your product in?"
  header: "Product Stage"
  multiSelect: false
  options:
    - label: "Idea/concept"
      description: "No product yet, exploring problem space"
    - label: "Pre-launch"
      description: "Building MVP, validating problem-solution fit"
    - label: "Post-launch"
      description: "Have users, optimizing product"

- question: "Do you have access to target users?"
  header: "User Access"
  multiSelect: false
  options:
    - label: "Yes, existing user base"
      description: "Can interview/survey current users"
    - label: "Need to recruit users"
      description: "Will find target users in communities"
    - label: "No users yet"
      description: "Will use secondary research/personas"

- question: "What's your primary research goal?"
  header: "Research Goal"
  multiSelect: false
  options:
    - label: "Understand user needs"
      description: "Discover what problems users have"
    - label: "Validate problem exists"
      description: "Confirm problem is worth solving"
    - label: "Test solution fit"
      description: "Check if product solves user problems"
    - label: "Segment users"
      description: "Identify different user types"

Quick Reference

Decision Tree

Research Modes

Methodologies (21)

Persona Building (4)

• Persona building
• AI-assisted persona building
• AI persona building
• Audience segmentation

User Interviews (4)

• User interviews
• User interviews methods
• AI interview analysis
• User research at scale

Problem & Pain Points (3)

• Pain point research
• Problem validation
• Problem validation 2026

Validation Methods (3)

• Validation methods
• User validation methods
• Synthetic users

Jobs-to-be-Done (1)

• Jobs-to-be-done framework

Value & Use Cases (4)

• Value proposition design
• Use case mapping
• Feature discovery
• Opportunity solution trees

Research Instruments (2)

• Survey design
• Success metrics definition

Key Frameworks

Output Files

All outputs go to .aidocs/product_docs/:

Integration

Parent Skill

Orchestrated by faion-researcher skill.

Related Sub-Skills

• faion-market-researcher - Market sizing, competitors, pricing

Next Steps

After user research complete:

• UX design → faion-ux-ui-designer
• Feature specs → faion-sdd
• Product roadmap → faion-product-manager

faion-user-researcher v1.0 Sub-skill of faion-researcher 21 methodologies | User Research & Validation