Natasha Brown

About

Research should change what teams do, not just what they know.

Natasha Brown

I'm Natasha Brown, a senior UX research and consumer insights leader with 10 years turning customer behavior into product direction and business impact, across retail e-commerce, mobile and digital experiences, and global consumer products.

I've led research across complex cross-functional initiatives, mentored researchers, built reusable research standards, and helped teams turn scattered customer signals into clearer roadmap decisions.

My path started with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida, where I learned to think in systems, test hypotheses, and trust evidence over assumption. That mindset carried into Procter & Gamble, where I owned consumer research for physical product innovation across Venus and Bounce, connecting how people actually live and use products to design choices, claims, and launch strategy. At Lowe's Digital, I brought that same rigor to digital product, leading UX research across e-commerce, post-purchase, and category experiences.

The throughline is the same whether the product is physical or digital: I turn messy customer signals into clear, defensible direction. Senior research leadership, to me, is less about running studies and more about framing the right questions, influencing cross-functional partners and executives, and building the systems, standards, and AI-assisted workflows that help an organization use insight well beyond any single study.

How I work

My approach

01

Frame the decision

I start with the decision you are trying to make, not the method. A sharply framed question is already half the answer, and it keeps research honest about what it actually needs to prove.

02

Design for signal

I choose methods for the clearest signal on that specific question, balancing depth with speed. The goal is confidence, not coverage.

03

Deliver for action

I structure findings around what to do next: a clear point of view, prioritized recommendations, and executive-ready storytelling. No 80-page decks that gather dust.

Capabilities & Toolkit

Methods in service of decisions

I match methods to the decision at hand, not the other way around. Here is the range I draw on, applied to the right problem at the right time.

Core capabilities

  1. 01Mixed-methods research design and discovery
  2. 02Evaluative testing, survey design, and behavioral analysis
  3. 03Information architecture and A/B testing partnership
  4. 04Executive storytelling and cross-functional facilitation
  5. 05Research operations, AI-assisted synthesis, and team enablement

Qualitative

To uncover root problems, needs, and motivations

In-Depth Interviews · Usability Testing · Card Sorting · Journey Mapping · Persona Development · Affinity Mapping · Contextual Inquiry

Quantitative

To validate, measure behavior, and quantify opportunity

Surveys · Tree Testing · A/B Testing · Heat Maps · Preference Testing · Max-Diff · Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) · Data Visualization

Platforms

Qualtrics · Maze · UserTesting · dscout · SurveyMonkey · Medallia · aytm · Alida · Microsoft Forms · respondent.io

Beyond the work

What keeps me curious

I am endlessly curious about why people do what they do, a trait that shows up everywhere from the products I study to the conversations I strike up. The engineer in me still loves a hard problem; the researcher in me loves the human story underneath it.

Outside of work, I am a lover of travel and exploring different cultures through their food. I am also passionate about fitness, health, and well-being, the habits that keep me curious, grounded, and at my best.

I care about building research cultures that are both rigorous and human, mentoring the next generation of researchers, and doing work that respects the customer and the business in equal measure.

Let's build with confidence

Whether you're hiring for a senior research role or need a research partner for a high-stakes decision, I'd love to hear what you're working on.