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Reflecting on 2018 — what we achieved, learned, and struggled with while starting our startup
12 months ago, Dovetail was a brand new product with a handful of features and users. Now we have hundreds of happy customers and thousands of active users. Here’s our year in review.
The difference between qualitative and quantitative research
It’s important to understand the difference between qualitative and quantitative research, especially if you’re new to the field. This article covers the key differences in simple terms.
How to analyze open-ended survey questions
This guide contains a basic overview of how to analyze unstructured qualitative data along with a few suggestions on how to get better insights from open-ended survey questions.
Tips for recruiting participants for user research
Finding, incentivizing, and managing research participants is one of the most involved aspects of qualitative research, and is often under-estimated. This guide gives you some pointers to make recruitment a breeze!
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February and March update – new insights, starred highlights, editor enhancements, and more
We have been busy (as usual!) releasing a lot of new features, improvements, and fixes to Dovetail like new insights, starred highlights, new editor shortcuts, and more.
Introducing the new Dovetail — updated navigation, new features, and a new logo
We’re thrilled to introduce you to the newer, faster, and more intuitive Dovetail, available to all customers right now.
Looking forward to 2019—our goals and our plan to get there
2019 is all about nailing our core and scaling to become the obvious user research platform for businesses. Read on to learn about what we’re focusing on to make that a reality.
New access controls help you manage who can view and edit research projects
This week we released our new project access controls to give users more control over who can view and edit projects. This feature is available now for customers on all plans except our Starter plan.
A beginner’s guide to natural language sentiment analysis
Learn how sentiment analysis works in basic terms and discover a few practical examples of when sentiment analysis is useful or not in this practical guide for beginners.
Announcing full-text global search with querying
Search all of your notes, tags, insights, and highlights. Refine your results with our powerful new query language, released today.
Dovetail now supports images and files with drag and drop
Drag and drop images, audio, video, and other file types into notes, tags, and insights in Dovetail.
Our list of qualitative research methods and techniques
This article lists a range of qualitative research methods. Each method is linked to an article with more information if you’d like to learn more about a particular qualitative research method.
Announcing automatic sentiment analysis at the sentence level
In Dovetail, we analyze the sentiment of sentences, rather than a roll-up of the whole document. This allows for much more granularity, and highlights core pain points or compliments hidden in the document.
Our new charts help you measure your tagging over time
This week we launched our brand new charts which help designers, product managers, and researchers combine the power of Dovetail’s qualitative tagging with a quantitative visualization over time.
How to run a user research diary study with participants
A diary study is a qualitative research method used to learn about people’s behaviors, thoughts, and feelings over a period of time.
How to attract visitors to your startup’s website
This guide introduces common marketing channels that help to drive traffic to your website, like social media, content marketing, SEO, paid advertising, referrals, and more.
Use our Zapier integration to import data from over 750 apps
We’ve collaborated with Zapier to provide a great embedded experience to connect hundreds of apps to Dovetail.
Dovetail awarded Jobs for NSW startup grant to fund automated analysis features
Dovetail has been awarded a $25,000 Minimum Viable Product grant from Jobs for NSW in Sydney, Australia. We’re putting this funding towards a product development investment in automated analysis features.
Optimizing website performance on Ruby on Rails
Speeding up your marketing website has a positive impact on customer experience and search ranking. That’s exactly what I did this week and in this post I’ll show you how!
Applying Intel’s Tick-Tock model to software development
The ‘tick-tock model’ was an approach used by Intel to alternate between improvement and innovation every 12–18 months.
Interview with Siftery
Kevin William David from Siftery.com interviewed me to talk about Dovetail, how we’re different, and some of our challenges. This post originally appeared on siftery.com and is re-published here with their permission.
Lessons from the trenches of pricing
If everything’s going well and your startup is still alive, at some point you will need to monetise. This article covers some of the lessons we’ve learned trying to monetise our MVP.
Taking the plunge on your startup
A write-up of my experience finding a co-founder, going full time, and ‘pivoting’ the product.
Outsourcing your startup’s MVP
Compromising is part of product design, and often the compromise is cutting scope. Cutting scope is better than compromising on quality. (Quality being defined as design, usability, stability, and performance.)
Thoughts on discovering a startup idea and validating it
If you are building a startup then you have an idea. Ideas are usually formed by observing a problem, whether it’s one that you have, or a problem someone else has.
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