Empowering Innovators through Research & Evaluation
Empowering Innovators through Research & Evaluation
Based in Austin, TX, PKE Insights is a research and evaluation firm specializing in qualitative and mixed-method research approaches. We provide independent research consulting and support that uncovers key insights, illuminates new opportunities, and discovers solutions for the challenges that organizations face. We are driven to help our clients both understand and improve the impact of their products and services.
Our Services
Our Services
With over a decade of experience conducting research, our services include user experience research, program evaluation, exploration/discovery, and usability testing. We particularly enjoy working collaboratively with our clients to solve research challenges using low cost and efficient strategies.
We offer both generative and evaluative research services using a variety of methodologies and techniques, such as ethnography, contextual inquiry, focus groups, in-depth interviewing, surveys, diary studies, heuristic evaluation, concept testing, usability testing, and card sorting.
Need help evaluating a product, service, or program? We are experienced in both formative and summative evaluation and can even develop customized toolkits that enable you and your team to implement your own evaluations.
Communicating results and actionable insights are our passion. Reports are tailored to your needs, whether that requires an infographic-driven report, workshop, verbal presentation, or larger technical report.
Whether you are looking for training or insights into specific research strategies or you need support brainstorming your next evaluation, we love to help organizations build their own research and evaluation capacities.
Iterative Strategies for Social Innovation
Iterative Strategies for Social Innovation
Programs can be planned and planned but when released into the wild, they must adapt to the reality of the unforeseen in order to be successful. This creates a challenge for organizations who are innovative in the programs they develop, but who also must show measurable success quickly to appease stakeholders and funders. We are passionate about making research and evaluation more useful for social good, and believe that our unique experiences in both UX research and program evaluation can be brought together to empower social innovators in the messy trenches of program development.