User research

Conducting user research

The developer as an individual survey - This survey seeks to understand the characteristics of a developer’s code, search tooling and use cases outside of the work environment.
- Slides

Holistic and evolving Sourcegraph user journey - This user journey map is an evolving study of the choices and decisions users make from initial contact through to on-going usage of the product.

Self-hosted installation user experience study - This study evaluated the ability of users to find the installation method and successfully install and configure the product. It also contains analytics of the installation path from account creation to initial searches.
- Research findings and notes
Self-hosted installation user journey (where users spoke with sales) - This study evaluated installation characteristics of users who had gone on to talk with sales.

Initial searches - This study sought to understand a user’s initial impressions and searches of the Sourcegraph Cloud product.
- Research summary slides
- User journey map
- Loom discussing the research part 1, part 2, part 3
Search use cases - A document describing the high level categories of code search use cases and use cases for each category. It also provides user studies for use cases where available.
- Search use cases
Search home content – This study explored the search home chips as a solution to the problems identified in #39817