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UX research
Find the right problem.I enter the work where it happens—interviews, contextual inquiry, working-session replays, usability studies, and mixed evidence—then build a grounded model of what people are trying to accomplish.
MATHIAS BURTON
aka / buttons
A senior UX researcher and product leader who turns complex technical work into evidence, product direction, and stronger teams.
EXPLORE MY RESEARCH/ mixed methods + technical platforms + product leadership = decisions teams can act on
03 / EXPERIMENTATION
AI Experiments
WORKING ARTIFACTS
I use generative tools to make products I can inspect, use, and improve. Recent work includes Daily Shodo, a published creative journal, and interactive product prototypes.
THE PRACTICE
Each experiment starts with a question and produces something tangible. I choose the goal, verify the facts, and shape what deserves to exist.
THE RECORD
The public experiment journal documents the work and its next steps.
EXPLORE THE PROJECT INDEX ↗HOW I WORK
Research finds the direction.
Leadership carries it forward.
I study complex work closely enough to reveal the model underneath it, then help multidisciplinary teams turn that evidence into product decisions, shared ownership, and sustained delivery.
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Product leadership
Help teams decide and deliver.I help teams agree on the problem, choose what to build first, assign ownership, and keep learning as the work ships.
SKILLS + TOOLS
THE OPERATING METHOD
Research finds the direction.
Product work carries it forward.
RIPEN helps me investigate and shape a problem. TASTE helps a team turn evidence into decisions, delivery, and learning. The case studies show how these practices work in context.
EXPLORE THE RESEARCH PRACTICEABOUT / BUTTONS
Original portrait.
I’m Mathias Burton—codename: buttons—a research, design, and product leader who is happiest in the space between an unresolved question and a useful thing in the world. I bring research depth, systems thinking, visual judgment, and organizational leadership to ambiguous zero-to-one work: setting direction, making the artifact, and helping a team see how the pieces connect.
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TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
Get to know me. Two statements are true; one is invented. Can you spot the lie? You have two guesses.
Choose the statement you think is made up.