User research repositories, also known as UX repositories, provide product teams with a central hub for storing, analyzing, and collaborating on user research to aid product improvement. Developers and product teams leverage these tools to organize user feedback data and ideate potential solutions or new product features to address that feedback accordingly. Rather than sifting through paragraphs of information to establish useful trends, team members using UX repositories can group feedback using custom tags. Additionally, some user research repositories automate tasks like trend detection, user sentiment analysis, and tagging.
While user research repositories interact directly with the data gathered by user research software, they do not necessarily provide functionality for teams to gather user data outright. User research repositories often serve as a supplement to product management software, because they give developers and product teams a base from which to develop new features or enhance existing ones.
To qualify for inclusion in the User Research Repositories category, a product must:
Provide a central repository to store user research data
Allow teams to interact with and organize user research data via tags and notes
Provide tools for teams to analyze user data and ideate solutions for negative feedback