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    dscout

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/Adscout headquartered in Chicago offers a mobile video research tool, available to marketers coducting research with intended product users in the moment, or conducted via video interview with users.N/A

    Lookback

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ALookback is a UX research platform for mobile & desktop moderated and unmoderated research, from the company of the same name in Palo Alto.N/A
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    Vyond
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Dovetail
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    8.5
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    Usability
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    dscout
    dscout is great for any UX research team. It's especially great for a research team who wants to have a true, meaningful relationship with the people who run their research platform. Whether that's hands-on onboarding, per-study assistance, or being on the cutting edge of new feature releases as a beta participant.
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    Lookback
    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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    Pros
    dscout
    • Great panel, good quality participants, strong recruitment.
    • Strong support from dscout for our team.
    • Easy to use interface.
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    Lookback
    • Organization of user interviews
    • Sharing of interviews across the team
    • Creating highlights of insights
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    Cons
    dscout
    • Need for more advancement in AI.
    • Need for better support for in-platform analysis.
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    Lookback
    • 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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    Usability
    dscout
    It is intuitive to use but can be confusing at first. Which is a reason why there is a two-month period where you train on how to use it.
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    Lookback
    Once you understand how the interface works, it works great, but there is a learning curve
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    Alternatives Considered
    dscout
    I feel that dscout's level of control over recruitment requirements, quality of research participants, and the UX of the tool itself, is far better than UserTesting for a variety of reasons. I used Great Question at a B2B company so I could recruit customers directly. I loved the CRM portion of Great Question. dscout now offers something similar (Private Panels) which I have not tried. Great Question is also another great company that stays close to their customers and truly listens to their feedback to iterate the product. I haven't used Dovetail in years, but I am power user (and big fan of) Condens. I don't do my analysis in dscout so I can't speak to its analysis capabilities. I do all of my analysis in Condens and Claude. Condens is a UXR analysis tool and repository. They're integrating AI into the product very judiciously, in ways that keeps the UXR in control of the process. Many AI tools and platforms let users just ask for themes and results straight out, so they don't get hands-on with the data and come to their own conclusions. Condens is doing a great job balancing AI capabilities and UXR brain power.
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    Lookback
    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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    Return on Investment
    dscout
    • With the dscout MCP I'm able to speed up my UXR analysis, which is what stakeholders always request. For example, I can use the MCP to drop user feedback directly on designs immediately after an interview, then share it with product and design. They get hands-on with the insights in real time after each interview and don't have to wait for the final report. By the time the final report is delivered, product and design feel like it's the cherry on top that ties it all together, but the designs, MVP scope, and roadmap have already absorbed the research insights.
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    Lookback
    • It allows us to understand our customers’ problems in a very team compatible way.
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