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10 out of 10
March 15, 2020
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Zoom is used by the entire company. Is really helpful to talk to other members in different locations and with customers all around the …
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Lee Preston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use UserZoom mostly for:
- Running unmoderated user testing sessions for client's websites
- Gathering feedback on designs / concepts / journeys / prototypes / information architecture, like I would via UsabilityHub
  • Easy to use & a good interface
  • Allows us to research more because it's got a few bits included in their plans
  • Gets good, reliable results when we use it
  • It can take longer to source participants than other platforms
  • It's quite expensive and needs to be used a lot to justify this
  • Some parts of the interface can be a little much for a simple task
It's well suited for a larger organisation that wants a tool that allows them to easily research ideas / journeys combining a few methodologies in one, that multiple teams can have access to and research without extra costs involved
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
UserZoom is currently only being utilized by the UX team for product-focused research and design research. Right now, the UX team and some product team members (like product managers) have access to the platform, but really, it's only used by the researchers, though we do have a new designer who is familiar with research and may start using it. Most of the research we do is with designs, like usability tests, click tests, and some surveys. Everything is in service of design-focused research where we are looking to improve on an existing design.
  • Flexibility with how to design tests, easy to reorder, easy to copy
  • Usability tests, the test builder is pretty easy
  • Moderated Usability Tests have a virtual observation room for stakeholders, which is EXCELLENT!
  • Compared with some other tools, because their video conferencing platform is web-based (vs. using Zoom, which has a desktop app), I find the connection buffers a lot and it's kind of annoying
  • Their screening tool on the UserZoom side (not Go) is clunky. Just let me select May, Must, or Should not for criteria rather than the weird interface design they have now.
  • Logic panel is a little confusing, sometimes I do a double-take, sometimes it's wonky and resets itself. It's just not as easy to use as it could be.
  • They haven't integrated UserZoom and UserZoom Go (formerly Validately)
  • It's expensive!
  • We signed up for a high sample size license with unlimited tests, but we're finding their panel doesn't fill as fast as their biggest competitor, UserTesting. We've struggled to fill n=100 sample tests with fairly general criteria.
  • A lot of their licenses only allow limited concurrent studies, whereas UserTesting had unlimited tests that you could launch at a time. It's slowed us down.
I think UserZoom is great because it's a good platform coupled with a panel. This is what makes solutions like this shine because building a test is only half the battle, you do have to field the test with some people. Compared with its competitor UserTesting, it's debatable which one fills faster. We have the ability to launch higher sample tests with UserZoom, which may explain why it's taken longer to fill studies. We also have quant tools, like click tests, tree tests, card sorts, and surveys that we really didn't have on UserTesting.

I love UserZoom's virtual observation room, where stakeholders can see sessions themselves in real time without having to make themselves visible to participants. This is a big reason why we switched from UserTesting, which uses Zoom, so all meeting participants are visible to the research participant. The downside of UserZoom is that their video platform is web-based, so it often buffers or lags when people don't have the strongest connection. With big prototypes, like Figma prototypes, it takes a looong time to load.

I also love their method of sending users to prototypes. It makes a huge difference when doing cognitive walkthroughs, where I can reset the prototype myself or bring them to a particular screen on my own, without having to walk them through the path to get there.

Lastly, just have to mention that their screening tool on UserZoom, not GO, is clunky. It's not as easy to screen participants as other solutions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company is a multinational public transport company where we operate bus, train, tram and coach services across the country. Therefore, we have a well-establish website and app where people complete different tasks such as purchasing tickets, getting a refund, or making an inquiry. To make sure our website and app provide a seamless user experience, we rely on UserZoom to run especially unmoderated tests when it comes to identifying UX issues, validating ideas, getting to know our target audience, and so on. Our team is constantly making improvements to the website to guarantee the website and app meet our customers' expectations.
  • Fast participants recruitment
  • Various research methods
  • Training courses
  • Finding the right and good quality participants
I have been using UserZoom to conduct unmoderated tasks and live sessions for a year for various research purposes such as identifying UX issues, validating new design concepts, understanding the users' behaviors, or even running competitor analysis. It was fairly easy to learn the tool as a first-time user. Also, it's easy to set up tests using different research methods like Card Sorting, Tasks, Test Clicks, and more.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Userzoom had assisted me and my organization make informed design decisions with the help of real customer feedback instead of just getting the team opinions, for getting quick feedback from from potential customers in design phase to prove/disprove hypothesis. This helps to create a great customer experience and makes the process faster
  • Collection of behaviour analytics related to
  • Decide the layouts, navigational schemas, images, and content via user feedback
  • Catch usability issues before writing the code
  • It takes a little time to get used to. Better UX would make things better.
  • It's not always straightforward when it comes to the logic features.
  • Some surveys have errors and black screen problems which can be improved
Data visualization - you can run different types of years and analyse tools, charts, and reports in the dashboard after tests are completed. These features allow to answer various questions that typically stakeholders ask, effectively.
When it comes to niche user groups, the panel is not that appropriate and hence Userzoom is less likely suited in such a scenario.



Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use UserZoom for usability tests. It makes it easier to have an interviewer, observers, and notetakers at the same time, it allows them to easily speak to each in case they need to. We also really like the fact that you can flag on the spot, key moments that will be for sure useful for the next steps.
  • Flag key moments
  • Easy communication between team members
  • Excellent transcription
  • The interface of the platform is not always easy to understand
  • Could be useful to show more than person at the time
  • Improve the chat between team members
  • Add features to the chat like sending images
I think that if you need to do a usability test, and look at how users interact with certain platforms, this is the right tool to do with! It makes facilitating the interview so much easier as others can easily write in the chat suggestions and possible pain points they might face. Also very useful to be able to flag key moments during the session
Alex Jones | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used UserZoom as a way of collecting qualitative feedback on prototype mobile screens, customer journeys, and our website from potential users. It allowed us to understand the extent to which users were able to understand and successfully navigate the prototypes and identify any issues they were experiencing so that the team could refine the designs before publishing changes.
  • Getting qualitative feedback
  • Includes quantitative study features
  • Easy to set-up projects / user dashboard
  • Expensive compared to other alternative providers.
  • The user dashboard doesn't look great, it's very functional.
  • Some very useful features - such as participant face recording - are 'locked' behind higher subscription levels.
UserZoom is really useful for getting qualitative feedback on prototype designs. It can also be used to run quantitative surveys. They have their own recruitment, so sourcing participants is automatic and easy. It is one of the better platforms for obtaining feedback quickly. However, I have found them to be significantly more expensive than other providers of both qual[itative] and quant[itative] research.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used the product for usability testing so that I could facilitate sessions and give control to the participants while we talk through each scenario. As far as I know, it has been used within our group only as well as with a few design consulates that we have worked with.
  • Screen share.
  • Allow observers to watch and participate in the sessions.
  • Scheduling options.
  • Capturing video.
  • Transcripts of the sessions.
UserZoom is well suited for usability testing, I found specifically around test websites and marketing materials. I was able to invite others to participate and watch as well as screen share so that it was an interactive session. Other tools I have used have been a little better with the video output and transcripts of each session so that we could capture notes quickly, but overall it was a good tool to use to test.
Joshua Melder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
UserZoom is most frequently used by the UI and marketing teams within my organization. Our teams often attempt to receive feedback on our own customer-facing tools in order to better the overall experience of our internal products. UserZoom gives us the ability to perform a wide variety of tests and come away with constructive feedback that helps us better recognize the advantages and gaps that we have in our own platforms. UserZoom is great because it gathers unbiased testers and provides a platform to create, host, and record feedback in real time.
  • Offers a wide variety of testing types: Click Testing, Card Sorting, and Screen Recording.
  • Post-Test Reporting helps make sense of the pass/failure rate of certain tasks (and participants).
  • It is relatively easy to add and edit tasks for users.
  • The user-interface does feel a bit dated at times.
  • We have encountered some issues when a participant is using dual monitors.
  • We have had some participants inform us that external links have caused issues on UserZoom.
UserZoom is very capable of creating a space for a UI team to ask important questions about the usability of a product. The wide number of test options is definitely a strength of the platform as a whole. Teams can create forms, click-tasks, surveys, browser sharing experiences (and more) in order to search for their desired customer insights. While the number of testing styles is robust, I would recommend the platform continue to update its own UI in order to stay up to date with other testing platforms on the market. Overall, I would highly recommend the platform as a tool to help better understand how applications are perceived by user-audiences first hand.

March 15, 2020

Really good!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zoom is used by the entire company. Is really helpful to talk to other members in different locations and with customers all around the world.
  • Help to be in touch with clients on a easy way.
  • The installation is really easy and fast.
  • You can use a free account and get what you need easily.
  • Would like to see a browser application.
  • Could be easier to get the link to the call.
  • Use-interface could be improved.
Whatever you have a customer or colleague in another place, Zoom is the best way to make a call with them.
Jackie Bassett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used UserZoom for end-user experience testing, most often to test CPG websites. What's most important in these scenarios is a seamless experience, of course. Utopia for consumers is when they can so readily find exactly what they are looking for/something they weren't looking for but now want and that the journey to purchase is seamless and fast! That takes a lot of testing, retesting and retesting! So the testing tool needs to be just as seamless an experience.
  • CPG online shopping experience testing: path to purchase (and everything in between) capture is excellent
  • Consumer demand validation: can add surveys and capture key quantitative metrics of a large number of actual users (unbiased human testers) all quite easily.
  • Ease of use encourages experience testing far earlier in the product development cycle (test early, test often, change according to authentic measurable results, etc.).
  • The more depth and agility that any UX tool offers, the more successful the offering being tested will be in the marketplace. Therefore we suggest never putting a ceiling on UX testing capabilities.
  • In the early days of our using UserZoom, our own UX with the tool was a bit of a challenge, but it's become far more user-friendly since then.
A classic example was when a major retailer in a fiercely competitive sector (fashion) asked us to test their new site (before launch). We agreed to shop for three very specific items and match the items for style amongst "suggested goes with" items in very specific sizes. The experience was a 9 out of 10. What we were able to find was the final step (actual purchase) was far too complex. UserZoom was a great tool that captured the issue and turned the launch into a great success.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started using UserZoom a year ago, and now that it's time to renew the contract I'm looking at other alternatives. We got the application mostly to do remote un-moderated task-based usability testing, and one of the main reasons we got UserZoom is because it allows you to set up the tests but use your own participants. This is something we need because our users are "members" and not regular consumers. Currently, it's only being used in my department (UX).
  • Their support team and customer service are very good, all staff is very knowledgeable and friendly.
  • Most testers we've used from their supplied tester panel, although it was not many, were pretty good at vocalizing during the test and expressing their opinions.
  • The user interface is pretty bad, looks dated and it's not very intuitive.
  • The task-based remote un-moderated tests have also a UI problem, it uses browser windows being repositioned and has some issues with dual monitors and passing the browser's approval to use the cam and mic.
Not a lot of services out there offer the remote, UN-moderated task-driven testability. The application works well for this, but the UI could use some improvement.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
UserZoom is being used for remote/moderated usability testing. It helps us to identify user experience related issues with websites and helps us improve on them.
  • Adding tasks is really simple and efficient.
  • The report that generates after completion of the task gives success rate and failure rate this helps us understand the participants better.
  • It allows to record sessions which comes handy for unmoderated usability tests.
  • It could improve on displaying the results after the test better or edit it better
  • Some users during testing found it difficult to navigate from tasks if there were external links.
It is a great tool for usability testing. I would recommend to anyone who wants to make use of the tool for conducting usability tests. It is more appropriate while conducting unmoderated testing. But it can be used for moderated as well.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We do consulting research, and use UserZoom for our client projects when we need to capture behavioral data (i.e. clickstreams, heatmaps, time on task). There aren't many tools out there with the combination of features that UserZoom provides, including logic to direct people to other questions or parts of the survey, the behavioral tracking mentioned above, and easy integration with panel providers.
  • Behavioral data collection: Although not perfect from what I can tell, UserZoom captures the majority of clicks and URL values when survey takers have installed the UserZoom browser extension.
  • Click testing: UserZoom makes it easy to do a one-page click test that is turned into a heat map, so you can identify where users would click first on a page.
  • Data collection without a download: By using javascript tags in your own website, you can track user's behavioral data without requiring a download, which increases feasibility for tough projects.
  • Block Randomization: There are some things you just can't do with the tools provided for creating sections of surveys and randomization. I can't recall off the top of my head what the issue was, but we were trying to show certain sections of a survey in a randomized order and it wasn't possible to do it at the level we wanted. Basic randomization of sections was supported.
  • Reporting: The reporting tool doesn't do any significance testing, and beyond filtering we don't find much use for it. The clickstreams are difficult to edit in the tool, and we typically just use Excel to do our analysis of any of the data.
  • Ability to link between surveys/studies: We have a repeating study that requires advanced screening and quota management, and would love to do it all within UserZoom. However, the logic available doesn't make it possible to distribute panelists based on age/HHI/etc., the way we would like to, so we have to pay a panel provider to program that portion and communicate constantly to fill quotas.
It really depends on the scenario. If you need behavioral data capture, there aren't many tools on the market that can do it as easily and reliably as UserZoom. Things like Loop11 have behavioral data capture, but their feature set is far behind UserZoom's in many ways. However, if you're just doing a simple survey you might be better off with something cheaper like SurveyMonkey. UserZoom's pricing fluctuates a lot and is difficult to predict without working with them directly.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used UserZoom primarily to conduct quantitative usability tests. I was the first to use it on our team of user experience researchers, and helped assess it for purchase for our team. We used UserZoom to assess online and mobile experiences, when we needed the quantitative sample to assess the overall performance etc.... which is hard to do in a lab or other means. Later on we also used it to conduct simple surveys as well as tree testing, card sorting, and even used it to track performance when conducting qualitative usability tests in the lab. I also conducted an intercept survey using UserZoom when the company launched a new mobile design, so that we could capture the feedback of our pilot participants.
  • Quantitative testing can be done on the cheap compared to other quant tools or vendors... once you buy the license, you only pay for additional recruiting and you are managing the project, so there isn't the high cost of having other vendors doing the project management or running a survey etc.
  • Farily robust means of tracking and recording data. I also relied heavily on the excel spreadsheet of all the raw data, which you can have UZ customize for you to get what you need.
  • Great support system from the UserZoom team - they have researchers who can help with coding and also provide research support for a very good price.
  • Also they have tree testing, card sorting, survey capabilities (in addition to usability testing)... and mobile testing. and they seem to be continously be developing the tool to support additional methods.
  • There is some learning curve with the study programming aspect.... however, once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy.
  • There is some limitations with what you can do... mainly because the study programming follows a linear model, and although there's logic that you can manipulate, I found some limitations (but never enough to cancel my study or look for an alternate due to methodology issues). The good news is that UZ also makes continued improvements in these areas as well... so I am expecting them to continue to look at this as well.
It is expensive. It is warrented if your organization has a high volume of studies and is mature enough to do more than qualitative usability testing. On the other hand, if you find yourself doing many surveys (large or small), usability tests, etc. there is cost savings due to the recruiting cost being the only thing you pay for... by the way, you will have to figure out how the coordinate the recruiting, but UserZoom is so helpful with this process and I think recently they have made efforts to bring those solutions in house.
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