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title: "Hire Optimal Workshop Designers for IA Research, Dedicated"
description: "Optimal Workshop designers who run card sorting and tree testing to settle your navigation. Hire dedicated UX designers, managed for one monthly fee."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/optimal-workshop/"
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# Optimal Workshop specialists for your dedicated team.

Optimal Workshop is a suite of research tools for information architecture: card sorting, tree testing, first-click testing and qualitative analysis, run remotely with quantitative output.

## Where Optimal Workshop fits in a long-term product team.

These methods settle arguments that otherwise run on opinion. Tree testing produces a success rate for finding a given item in a proposed structure, a number that is remarkably effective at ending navigation debates.

First-click testing is the underused one. Where someone clicks first on a page strongly predicts whether they complete the task, so testing that single decision identifies structural problems very cheaply.

## What your dedicated team does with Optimal Workshop.

Testing structure before visual design is the sequence that saves effort. Discovering a navigation problem after screens are designed means redesigning them; discovering it in a tree test means changing a list.

Sequencing research before design is a delivery decision, and part of how design work is planned when you [outsource UX design](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ui-ux-design-team/).

## Common Optimal Workshop use cases.

* Navigation debates settled with numbers Task success rates replacing preference and seniority.
* Structure tested before screens exist Problems found when fixing means changing a list, not a design.
* First-click as an early signal A cheap test that predicts task completion well.

## Adding Optimal Workshop skills to your team.

Structural research is assigned inside design capacity, sequenced before visual design so findings are cheap to act on.

Optimal Workshop specialists join your team remotely as dedicated, full-time team members, selected, employed and managed by us in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Companies that [hire offshore developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) through Azendo add the skill when the product calls for it.

## Roles that use Optimal Workshop

* [UX Researcher UX/UI design](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ui-ux-design-team/ux-researcher/)

## Service areas that use Optimal Workshop

* [UX/UI design](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ui-ux-design-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

## Related in design and research

* [Storybook, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/storybook/)
* [Maze, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/maze/)
* [Hotjar, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/hotjar/)
* [usability testing, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/usability-testing/)
* [design systems, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/design-systems/)
* [design tokens, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/design-tokens/)
* [component libraries, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/component-libraries/)
* [auto-layout and variants, a skill in our teams](https://azendo.co/skills/auto-layout-and-variants/)

## Tell us what you need Optimal Workshop for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

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