Workshop

Introduction to Claude Skills for User Research

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Nikki Anderson

Founder @ User Research Strategist

Build Claude skills that do your research the way you do

Level: Beginner level; no prior experience with skills, just some comfort using the Claude chat. We will not cover Claude Code!

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 126 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 three hours you understand what a skill is and when it is worth building, watch me build a real one end to end, as well as what to do once you build the skill. You leave able to tell a strong skill from a weak one, with the confidence to tackle your own

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

  • Know when it is applicable to use a Claude skill

  • Understand where skills fit in your workflow and phase

  • Determine mechanical vs. judgement based tasks to know when to offload tasks to AI

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

  • Learn how to leverage your past work to build a skill, and exactly what type of documentation you need

  • Understand the scope of a skill and how big the skill should be

  • Know the difference between skills and agents in terms of workflow

  • Understand my exact steps of building a skill, including a live walkthrough

  • Learn the exact prompting and back-and-forth with Claude to build an effective skill

  • Leave knowing how to edit and iterate on your skills

  • Learn exactly how to sharpen those skills, including a walkthrough of my back-and-forth with Claude

  • Think through stakeholders' POV when creating skills for democratization

Workshop agenda

  • What a skill 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

  • Where skills fit in your workflow

    Understand where skills sit in your workflow and what type of tasks are best offloaded to AI

  • What makes a skill strong

    Review my previous skills to understand the components and the types of context that make a skill effective and efficient

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

    Understand the scope of a skill and how these differ from agents (plugins)

  • Watch a real skill built end to end

    I will show my exact steps for building a skill with Claude, including prompting and editing

  • Review next steps

    Know what exactly to do after you build a skill, from iteration and creating democratization-based skills for stakeholders

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Nikki Anderson

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

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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

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

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