Nexus Expert Research

Product & UX Research

Why B2B product research requires a different approach

Consumer UX research and B2B product research are not the same discipline. In B2B, the person who evaluates a product is often not the person who uses it daily, and neither of them is the person who signed the purchase order. Research that treats these as interchangeable produces misleading direction.

Nexus sources respondents by functional role, product category experience, company size, and purchasing involvement. When a software company needs to understand how IT managers evaluate security tools, we source IT managers who have recently been through that evaluation, not general technology professionals who loosely match.

Product & UX Research

Product and UX research with Nexus typically covers:

Product & UX Research

How target users interact with your category today, including their workarounds, daily frustrations, and alternative evaluation criteria.

Concept & Prototype Validation

Feedback from the exact professionals who would adopt the product, before you commit engineering budget to a specific path.

Feature Prioritization

Trade-offs buyers make under real-world conditions, surfaced through specialized methodologies like conjoint and MaxDiff studies.

Post-Launch Adoption

The root causes behind the gap between intended and actual product usage.

Research methods matched to your product questions

In-depth interviews work best for discovery, understanding workflows, mental models, and the context around product decisions before you’ve defined what to test. Surveys work at the validation stage when you have hypotheses to test across a statistically meaningful sample. Focus groups are useful when group interaction surfaces insights that individual interviews wouldn’t, particularly for collaborative workflows or shared-decision environments. CATI is available for senior or hard-to-reach respondents where structured telephone engagement achieves response rates that online methods don’t.
Private Cloud Purchasing Insights Across Europe and Latin America

Recruitment that matches your actual target user

Nexus recruits against your specific user profile, role, industry, company size, technology stack, or any other criteria relevant to your research questions. We do not pull from static panels. Every project is sourced fresh against the brief, which is why the respondent quality holds up even for niche B2B audiences that standard providers routinely fail to reach.

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