Research Pilot: Test Your Study Before Recruiting
Check how a pilot run with colleagues distinguishes prototype bugs, ambiguous instructions, and duration, without generating target audience evidence.
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Check how a pilot run with colleagues distinguishes prototype bugs, ambiguous instructions, and duration, without generating target audience evidence.
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UXTap vs Useberry: from prototype fidelity to design decision
Compare integrations, tasks, recordings, and analysis without confusing prototype failure with a usability problem. Includes a roadmap for orders and delivery.
UXTap vs Maze: prototypes, interviews, and research operations
How to evaluate UXTap and Maze from the first test to the evidence archive: methods, recruitment, analysis, total cost, and a migration that preserves context.
UXTap vs Lyssna: choose between impression, preference, and behavior
A comparison for teams that need to validate messages and navigation. Understand methods, recruitment, prototypes, recordings, and what each result allows you to conclude.
UXTap vs Hotjar: Task Testing and Website Analysis with Contentsquare
When to observe visitors, when to invite participants, and how to combine evidence. See the current Hotjar/Contentsquare offering, instrumentation, and historical data considerations.
Tree testing: test navigation before designing the menu
Assess whether people find information through structure and labels, using clear tasks and careful path analysis.
Usability testing in Figma: from prototype to useful evidence
Prepare tasks, connections, and success criteria so that Figma testing reveals experience difficulties and produces clear decisions.
First Click Test: Discover Where the Task Begins
Learn how to use the first click to evaluate action discoverability and interpret chosen regions without extrapolating the result.
Preference Test: Compare Alternatives with a Clear Question
Discover how to prepare comparable versions, ask for justifications, and use stated preference without confusing it with ease of use.
Content Testing: Discover What Text Allows You to Understand and Do
Investigate doubts in texts and screens, ask for concrete explanations, and transform markings into revisions that can be validated.
Five-second test: what your page can communicate
Use a brief exposure to investigate recall and understanding of the message, with questions that do not reveal what should have been perceived.
Tag or extension: how to prepare a test on a real website
Choose the instrumentation based on website access, audience device, and the visual evidence needed to analyze the task.
SUS: how to use the usability scale without confusing the score
Understand the SUS structure, result calculation, and necessary precautions to compare versions without losing the experience context.
Research Repository: Make Findings Survive the Presentation
Organize evidence, tags, and interpretations to retrieve previous learnings and decide when a finding needs to be reviewed.
Session Replays: Find Evidence Without Aimlessly Watching Everything
Organize session review by research question and differentiate between video, event-based reconstruction, and behavior interpretation.
UX Executive Report: Show the Decision and Necessary Evidence
Organize a report that explains the problem, the strength of the evidence, and the next action without losing methodological context.
Continuous research: transform recurring feedback into small decisions
Plan when to invite, what to ask, and how to review signals to maintain a product-linked learning routine.
SaaS Onboarding: test the path to the first useful outcome
Investigate the beginning of the experience through the customer's objective and discover which steps help or hinder reaching a relevant outcome.
NPS: how to calculate, interpret, and investigate what's behind it
Understand the NPS formula and build an interpretation that preserves the distribution of scores, context, and reported reasons.
Maze, Useberry, Lyssna or Hotjar: how to choose your research tool
A guide to move beyond the feature list and decide based on the work: method, material, audience, evidence, total cost, and continuity. Includes UXTap in the evaluation.
User journey map: connect paths to opportunities
Build a journey with purpose, context, and evidence, distinguishing the path between screens from the broader user experience.
Conditional logic: show the right question to each participant
Design understandable branches, test all paths, and keep denominators clear when analyzing questions seen by different audiences.
AI Interview in UX: Prepare the Script and Review the Evidence
Use AI-driven interviews to explore experiences with real people, maintaining objectives, boundaries, and reviewing interpretations.
CSAT vs CES: when to measure satisfaction and when to measure effort
Choose the metric according to the experience you want to investigate and keep the scale, timing, and calculation clear to interpret the result.
Quotas and Recruitment: Form a Useful Sample for the Question
Differentiate screening, sample composition, and response limits to recruit relevant people without confusing quantity with quality.
Compare Versions: Discover if the Change Improved the Experience
Prepare a comparison with consistent tasks, audiences, and criteria, distinguishing observed difference from evidence about the effect of the change.
How to plan UX research that ends in a decision
A lean plan to define the question, choose the method, recruit the audience, and agree on how the team will use the results.
How to write usability tasks without giving away the path
Transform research objectives into clear scenarios, with sufficient context and success criteria that don't give away the answer.
How to analyze a heatmap without turning clicks into assumptions
Learn to read click maps with task, device, and session context, avoiding conclusions that the visualization does not support.
Card sorting: discover how people organize their content
Plan cards and categories, read the groupings, and transform patterns into a testable architecture proposal.
Open-ended responses with AI: organize themes without losing people's voices
Combine automatic grouping, response reading, and human review to transform free text into useful product evidence.
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