Workshop

Introduction to Claude Skills for User Research

Nikki Anderson

Founder @ User Research Strategist

Build Claude skills that do your research the way you do

Date and time: July 8, 2026,

Level: Beginner level; no prior experience with skills and no coding needed, just some comfort using the Claude chat

Right now, somewhere in a research team, someone is re-typing the same context into Claude for the fourth time this week, getting something generic back, editing it into something usable, and wondering why AI was supposed to change everything.

It does change things, just not through repetitive prompting.

A Claude Skill tells Claude exactly how to approach a specific research task, your methodology, your quality bar, your output format, so you stop explaining yourself every session and Claude starts working the way you work.

I have built over 52 of these skills for research and watched researchers go from "Claude is fine I guess" to running entire processes on autopilot. That change happens the moment you build something rather than just prompt something.

In two hours you understand what a skill is and when it is worth building, watch me build a real one end to end, and draft the start of your own. You leave able to tell a strong skill from a weak one, with a real head start and the blueprint to build your full set.

What you’ll learn

Leave understanding what a skill is, able to spot the ones worth building, and brainstorm the start of your own, built to how you work

  • Tell chat, Cowork, and Code apart, and know why the normal chat is all you need to start

  • See where skills and Projects fit, so the whole picture finally clicks

  • Understand the parts of a real skill, the name, description, rule, steps, example, and limits

  • Write the description that decides whether Claude ever reaches for your skill

  • Learn how to leverage your past work to enhance a skill

  • Use one clear test: if you keep explaining the same task, it is a skill waiting to be written

  • Size a skill to one job, and tell skill-worthy tasks from ones a chat handles fine

  • Follow the whole flow once, calmly, from blank fields to a skill running in Claude

  • See the before and after, generic Claude next to a skill that holds your standard

  • Leave with the heart of your skill written, ready to finish at your own pace

  • Learn how to sharpen a skill over time as you use it

Workshop agenda

  • What a skill actually is

    We start with the everyday frustration of re-explaining yourself to Claude, then an overview of what a skill actually means and where it lives

  • Chat, Cowork, Code, and where skills fit

    Clear up the tool confusion for good: what each surface is for, why the normal chat is all you need today, and how skills and Projects sit on top of it

  • What makes a skill strong

    Open up a real skill and read every part, with the most time on the description, the one line that decides whether Claude ever reaches for your skill

  • When to build a skill, and how big to make it

    The simple test for a skill worth building, how to size one to a single job, and a quick round of good versus bad use cases so the judgement is yours

  • Watch a real skill built end to end

    I build one full skill live, from blank fields to working in Claude, so you see the whole flow once, calmly, with nobody fighting their own setup

  • Build the start of your own, and where it goes next

    Draft the heart of a skill for a task you repeat, then we look at improving it, and finishing at your own pace

Learn directly from Nikki

Nikki Anderson

Nikki Anderson

Contact

Founder of The User Research Strategist, trained 50+ research teams and 2K UXRs

See all products from Nikki

Who this workshop is for

  • Researchers or people who do research that are new to Claude skills and not technical, who want a clear, hands-on start

  • Teams who want consistent, on-brand outputs across the group, not everyone prompting Claude their own way

  • User researchers or people who do research who keep getting generic output and want it working their way instead of fixing it every time

What's included

Nikki Anderson

Live sessions

Learn directly from Nikki Anderson in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Bonus materials

A bonus UXR skill creator, companion guide, and all the course materials

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Frequently asked questions

Maven for Teams

Reimbursement

Get your company to pay

Everything L&D needs: email template, receipts, and certificate of completion.

Get reimbursed

Team discount

Learn with your teammates

Save 20%+ when 2 or more teammates enroll in the same cohort.

Save 20%+ with a team

Private cohort

Run a cohort for your org

A dedicated cohort with a custom schedule and curriculum, tailored to your team.

Book a private cohort

$250

USD

Jul 8
Enroll