You can listen to the podcast here: Listen to this post: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, or listen with Stitcher. Here are a few questions we cover during the podcast: Should tech writers do user testing and research, or is this product team’s job in designing the product? Can’t we just leverage marketing personas for the user research we need? How can looking at the market and product angles help clarify user needs and behaviors? What kind of knowledge can we leverage from universal design patterns about how users consume docs? How do we avoid hasty generalizations from a user sample that’s too small? Is it feasible for tech writers to actually do user testing on top of all of their other duties? How can you make feedback forms on docs more likely to get responses from users? If you collect feedback at major milestones that users complete, how do you avoid just collecting responses from successful users? How does Twilio successfully collect info from their users? How can you successfully gather metrics that show user success or failure on tasks? How can you make your feedback surveys specific to the data so that you get better responses? For more information about Bob Watson, see his site, Docs by Design.