The field of UX research is relatively new, but its methods are not.
And while UX methods may have new names, many of these methods are specialized adaptations of methods with roots in other fields, well back into history.
When you understand the fields where the methods originally came from and how they’ve been adapted, you can effectively use them in UX research.
Here are twelve UX research methods and some of their interesting roots.
Jeff Sauro, PhD – Where do UX research methods come from?
no straight lines 