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User Research Synthesis
🟢 Production-Ready🕐 updated 2026-07-14
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-essentials
Analyze and synthesize user research findings into structured, actionable insights. Use when given user research data, interview transcripts, survey results, or user feedback that needs to be analyzed and summarised. Produces a themed synthesis with prevalence data, supporting quotes, pain points analysis, feature request prioritisation, and recommended next steps. For interview transcripts specifically use user-interview-synthesis instead.
📚 Based on Interviewing Users (Steve Portigal); affinity mapping
What to give it
▸Research data — transcripts, notes, survey results, or summary bullets
▸Research method — interviews, surveys, usability tests, etc.
▸Number of participants — and their profiles (role, context)
▸Research questions — the study aimed to answer
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Themes identify patterns across multiple participants, not individual responses
✓Insights connect to specific product decisions, not just observations
✓Each claim includes supporting evidence (quotes, counts, or examples)
✓Observations and interpretations are clearly separated
✓Findings are prioritised by impact, not just listed
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not list every individual comment — synthesis must identify patterns across participants
Do not make interpretive leaps without supporting evidence from the data
Do not focus on feature requests before understanding the underlying problem — always identify the job-to-be-done first
Do not ignore contradictory data — conflicting findings must be surfaced and noted
Do not present results without quantifying prevalence — state how many participants held each view
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpStart with
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