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From Strategy to Code

Services/Experience & Interface/UX Research & Design

UX Research Agency · User Research, Field Studies, Diary Studies, South Africa

UX research that goes beyond a usability lab and into the contexts users actually live in — taxi rank, clinic waiting room, factory floor, kitchen table. We do interviews, contextual inquiry, diary studies, and field research that informs design decisions instead of decorating them.

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Why HXRL

Our point of view

African UX research has to account for code-switching, low-bandwidth realities, multi-user device sharing, and trust-context that imported research playbooks miss. We design research protocols that surface those, not gloss over them.

Outcome

Research insights design and product can act on — and that survive the next reorg because they're documented in a repo, not in a slide deck.

What we ship

UX Research

Concrete deliverables — not adjectives. Each engagement scopes which of these are in play and what success looks like for them.

01User interviews and stakeholder interviews
02Contextual inquiry and field studies
03Diary studies and longitudinal research
04Persona and journey mapping (research-backed, not invented)
05Research repositories and synthesis playbooks
FAQ

Questions clients actually ask

Drawn from sales calls, not SEO filler. Want a question added? Drop it in the form on this page — we update from real enquiries.

Quantitative or qualitative?+

Both, paired. Qual to find the question, quant to size it. We don't deliver one without the other for product decisions.

Personas — useful or theatre?+

Useful when grounded in actual research and updated. Theatre when invented in a workshop. We only ship research-backed personas.

International research — can you cover non-SA?+

Yes — we run research across Africa (Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana) and into the GCC. We work with local recruiters where context fluency matters.

How long is a research engagement?+

2–6 weeks typically. Foundational research (new product) is longer; iterative research (existing product) is shorter and continuous.

Get in touch

Talk to a senior engineer about UX Research.

No SDR funnel — your message goes to a director who can tell you, on the first call, whether we're the right partner.

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