UserTesting

UserTesting can be a powerful tool to understand how real people experience my organization's software. Here's how I leverage it within my team. I start by defining clear goals for my user testing session. What specific questions do I have about user behaviour? UserTesting offers its participant pool, or I can recruit my testers based on my target audience. Once participants are selected, I'll create a test scenario with tasks for users to complete while interacting with the interface. The beauty of UserTesting is that it facilitates remote, unmoderated sessions. Users complete the tasks on their own while recording their screen and audio. This allows me to observe genuine user reactions and thought processes without influencing their experience. After the test, UserTesting provides recordings of each participant's session. I can watch them individually or share them with my team. As I analyze the recordings, I pay attention to areas where users struggle or hesitate. This can reveal issues with the interface's usability. UserTesting also offers tools to highlight key moments and create clips for easy reference and discussion with my colleagues. By synthesizing the findings from the user testing sessions, I can identify opportunities to improve the user experience. UserTesting empowers my organization to make data-driven decisions based on real user behaviour.

Our organization uses UserTesting to find and test people remotely and capture their interactions with our app and website. UserTesting allows us to find and reach audiences that would be difficult to find on our own. Our product is a family history / genealogical product that needs to reach an international audience so testing people from all over the world is necessary. We use UserTesting to understand friction and pain points in our experiences by creating prototypes, using UserTesting to target our audience and capture video of their use of the prototype and audio of them talking through the test.

We use UserTesting as users and product marketers to AB and beta test our products. This helps us understand how users perceive our product, allowing us to go beyond the basic requirements and create a good UX. Our suite of over 400 products undergoes rigorous testing before being made live, and UT has a critical impact on ensuring delivery quality.

We use UserTesting mainly to conduct unmoderated usability tests. Since we practice agile, we must frequently launch tests every week or every other week to receive user feedback and gain insights so the design team can work on them. What's good about UserTesting is that it doesn't take long until participants complete the test (unless you are screening for niche users), so you can launch the test, go for a walk, and then come back to analyze the data.

At our German mobile games company, we use UserTesting extensively to improve the user experience and interface design. This tool allows us to reach specific target audiences, allowing them to offer real-time feedback on our mobile game prototypes via recorded audio and screen activity. Our use case for user testing includes everything from pre-launch idea testing to post-launch game enhancement. We investigate responses to game pitches or early prototypes during the concept phase. We test increasingly polished iterations of the games as production moves forward, concentrating on certain features like character design, stage difficulty, and UI options. We use UserTesting even after the game launches to improve it according to how players engage with various aspects/features of the game—which is frequently surprising.