Dovetail vs. Lookback

Dovetail gives an easy starting point to new starters so they can get the concept of why our product has been built/evolved to how it currently is. Get direct customer feedback to answer many of those early common questions and even shortcut the 'why don't we' thinking that every new hire has, We also used Dovetail as a way to share high-value reference customer interviews and testimonials to demonstrate our product-market fit and techs capacity to investors during the Due Diligence process for obtaining external funding

Incentivized

Best suited to conduct remote interviews that are moderated and facilitated by the interviewer/researcher.

Not the best if you want to do it unmoderated, there are much more sophisticated tools out there. Unfortunately, for a design research team that does both these kids of research, it can be hard to get budgets to get two softwares and hence the Unmoderated Feature can seem super undercooked and doesn’t really do the job.

Otherwise it’s a great tool

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• Grouping projects
• Content repository
• Sharing user feedback with external organisations

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• Organising interviews for mobile devices
• Observer links so people can watch without interrupting the session
• Video transcriptions

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• Make access possible per project rather than whole account
• Embedded video is often choppy
• Transcribe software is behind new (free) AI tools in market

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• Unmoderated interviews is still under cooked as a feature
• The process of how participants have to download an app to start an interview is a large friction point for us

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Zoom was way more expensive and it o is designed to other things apart from just running qualitative interviews. It also requires a different kind of approval and different approval processes to go through when trying to get it simply for qualitative research purposes.

Lookback records, scribes, helps observe and provides a sentiment check as well in the price that it does

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• Saved us 10+ hours of DD work during fundraise
• saves a good 15+ hour per new staff member onboard of current team time
• quality of life vs having multiple google drives that nobody will look at

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• It allows stakeholder engagement and that’sa huge plus especially if it’s happening discretely in the background and theyre not interrupting the interview

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