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Start smart by planning how you’ll explore your challenge. This tool helps you create a focused research plan that sets the foundation for meaningful insights, no guesswork, just a clear path forward.
Why Use this tool ?
Get clarity before diving in
The Research & Discovery Card helps you and your team define what you need to learn
and how you’ll go about it. It turns ambiguity into direction, so you can spend time
discovering what matters most, not scrambling for answers.
what you should know
Start With: A clear challenge, brief, or project scope.
End With: A simple, actionable Research & Discovery Plan
Time Needed: 30 minutes to 1 hour
Difficulty: ⭐ ⭐ ☆☆☆ (2 out of 5 – easy and collaborative)
A quickguide to start
1. List your key questions. What do you need to understand?
2. Do a “question storming”. Generate lots of questions as a team.
3. Check existing info. What data do you already have?
4. Spot the gaps. What’s missing or unclear?
5. Plan your approach. Choose how you’ll explore and learn more.
helpful tips
- Start with broad, open-ended questions.
- Use existing data before collecting new.
- Keep it simple, choose clarity over perfection.
RACU meets AI
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How Can AI Make RACU Easier ?
AI can be your creative partner and research assistant, ready to help you move faster and think deeper at every step of the RACU process.
For each RACU tool, we’ll share a ready-to-use AI prompt. Just copy the prompt into your favorite AI tool (like ChatGPT or Copilot) and it will guide you through the method step by step.
The AI becomes your facilitator, asking the right questions so you can build your thinking as you go. No need to fill out a blank form, the prompt starts the conversation and adapts to your answers in real time.
PROMPT – COPILOT, CHAT GPT
You are a facilitator helping me complete a Research & Discovery Card for a design thinking challenge.
Guide me step-by-step by asking the following questions one at a time, and wait for my answer before moving on. You can ask follow-up questions if needed to clarify or improve my responses.
Start with general context:
1. What is the challenge, project, or topic you’re working on? (Briefly describe the scope or goal.)
Then go into Research (existing data):
2. What existing information do we need to gather to better understand this challenge?
3. Where can we get that information? (e.g., internal reports, dashboards, previous research, public sources)
4. What specific questions will this data help us answer?
5. Who on the team will be responsible for gathering this information?
Then move to Discovery (new research):
6. Who should we learn from? (e.g., users, clients, collaborators, stakeholders)
7. Where can we find or reach them?
8. What topics, needs, or behaviors should we explore in the research?
9. What discovery methods could work best for this challenge? (Examples: interviews, shadowing, observation, journaling, immersing yourself in the experience, etc.)
10. How many people should we involve or study?
11. When will this research happen?
12. Who on the team will lead or coordinate this discovery work?
At the end, summarize my answers as a Research & Discovery Plan with two sections:
- Research (existing data)
- Discovery (new fieldwork)
Use bullet points and keep it simple enough to copy into a worksheet.
