Where User Research Insights Turn Into Action
At Curiosity Tank, we empower teams and individuals with hands-on UXR training, mentoring, and consulting.
Companies Across the Globe Trust Curiosity Tank for Industry-Leading Training, Resources, and Consulting
Curiosity Tank is a user research consultancy dedicated to helping businesses answer their most pressing UX questions and individuals deepen their UX knowledge.
The only thing that excites us as much as activating insight for businesses is empowering teams to fly themselves. We teach, mentor, and train teams and individuals to up their curiosity skills.
We’re curious as hell and proud of it.
How we can help you achieve your goals
Whether you’re looking for a customized consulting engagement, training for your team, or mentoring to take your UX career to the next level, you’ve got options.
UXR Consulting for Businesses
From foundational research and discovery to usability testing, get access to a range of research services to gain insights throughout your product development process.
Make better product decisions with our over 20 years of UXR expertise.
Team Training
Upskill the various levels of UXR experience on your team.
With our team workshops, you’ll learn how to conduct more meaningful, relevant, and iterative research to stay competitive.
Workshops for Individuals
Whether you’re new to UX research or a seasoned pro, you’ll learn how to conduct meaningful, relevant, and impactful research.
Be prepared to improve your skills, fill your knowledge gaps, and become curious as hell.
What our clients say
Michele has terrific skill set and a wealth of research experience. In the year we worked together she’s done it all – from elegant and pragmatic usability studies, to all kinds of workshops, and complex and rigorous user research across the US, UK, AUS and NZ. In every project she’s displayed her mastery for all things research. I’ve loved working with her and hope to do so again.
— Bert Aldridge, Design Research Director, Xero
“When I first started exploring a career in UX research, I felt totally lost. I didn’t want to make the time or financial commitment to a degree program that wouldn’t necessarily give me the tools I needed, but I didn’t know of any alternative for rigorous training in the basics.
I’m so thankful to have found Michele and Curiosity Tank! We covered an amazing amount of information and I walked away from the class with a tangible work product.”
— Mia Bruch, Ask Like a Pro Student, Winter 2020 Cohort
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Created and led by Michele Ronsen, CEO of Curiosity Tank
Michele Ronsen started as a designer. A good one. But it wasn't until she discovered the power of research that she understood what she'd been missing — and what better outcomes had always required.
That realization became a question she couldn't let go of: what would have made my work better earlier? Everything she's built since is the answer.
She builds things. The Curiosity Tank methodology. The UX Lexicon. The Ask Like A Pro curriculum and Expert Training Series. Ask Like A Pro: Together — an AI-powered research planning tool built on 13 years of proprietary practice. A 72-page research playbook for Gusto Embedded Platform customers. A Dovetail research enablement and management repository for Schneider Electric. A ghostwritten keynote for the CEO of a leading research platform.
She teaches. With 5,000+ hours of instruction, Michele has trained practitioners at Slack, Stripe, Amazon, Chewy, Epidemic Sound, and more — through Ask Like A Pro, Curiosity Tank's hands-on applied research education program.
She writes and speaks. Her thinking appears in UserInterviews.com, Optimal, Lyssna, QRCA Views, and Autodesk Academy. She's been a guest on Awkward Silences, The Product Manager Podcast, Ladies that UX, and others. And she writes the Fuel Your Curiosity blog — about research, practice, and what it actually takes to do this work well.
Michele leads Curiosity Tank with pragmatism, without pretension, and with one enduring conviction: better questions lead to better outcomes. For everyone.