I'm a UX professional and I don't use these methods. No cardsorts. No storyboards. No personas. No 'unfocus groups'. And I wrote a book about them. I do use re

I'm a UX professional and I don't use these methods. No cardsorts. No storyboards. No personas. No 'unfocus groups'. And I wrote a book about them. I do use research techniques though, sometimes. Usually they're really fast, and none of the ones you listed :) Remember that many of the methods you listed where invented for work on large content sites, intranets and such, not consumer oriented products. Answer to your question: no, it's not representative of what startups do for ux.