Leah Buley is a researcher and designer

She specializes in mixed methods research to shape evidence-based product strategy.


HOW I CAN HELP

Know your customers better

Quantitative and qualitative customer research to stop wondering what customers need and execute with greater focus.

Be more visionary

Market research, trends analysis, and exploratory design to help push beyond parity to create industry leading products.

Make higher quality products

Iterative product validation and measurement to make products that definitively achieve their goals.
Images courtesy of Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language.
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Online Chinese tutors discuss the influence of Chinese language context on design

By Leah Buley
~ 26 Jan 2023 ~

Contrary to Western languages, Chinese utilizes rectangular characters made up of several strokes and is logogrammatic, highlighting how complicated the language is. Chinese culture is renowned for being very contextual, which means that in order to properly understand what has been said, a person must understand the larger context. Conversations make non-verbal clues like voice intonation, eye contact, and facial emotions considerably more obvious. We advise that you attend at least a few lessons with online Chinese tutors in order to comprehend the context of the Chinese language and all the complexities of spelling...

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How Design Can Help Chinese Teaching

By Leah Buley
~ 10 Aug 2023 ~

Learning Chinese is a challenging endeavor. Mastering tens of thousands of characters takes years. But London-based entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh, born in Taipei, wanted to find a more straightforward method to help her English-speaking children learn the 200 characters required for fundamental reading comprehension.

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How to use Design Thinking in Learning Language?

By Leah Buley
~ 24 Nov 2023 ~

Learning may take place in a classroom full of students (or an office full of coworkers), but the fact is that it is personal—especially when it comes to learning a new language. Unfortunately, creating unique, personalised experiences for employees has not always been straightforward for HR and learning & development professionals. However, owing to technological improvements, design thinking has revolutionised how we acquire new skills at work—we now have the potential to build human-centered apps and programmes tailored to individual learners.

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