Discovery templates

Learn about User Testing's Discovery templates.

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About Discovery templates

  • Discovery templates allow you to learn about customer thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors.
  • This is just a short list of available templates. For the full list, refer to the Template Gallery.

 

 

Buyer persona characteristics

Objectives

  • How do participants decide to buy a product?
  • What motivates them to buy?

 

Good for

  • Building a complete picture of your ideal customer.
  • Assessing attributes of your customer that may affect their buying behaviors.

 

You need

The buying objective you want feedback about.

 

Template

Buyer persona characteristics

 

 

Feature prioritization

Objectives

  • How do participants rank items based on different criteria?
  • Which product features are most/least important?

 

Good for

  • Deciding on the priority of projects or new features.
  • Understanding how people rank items based on different criteria.

 

You need

  • Access to ia.usertesting.com to use this template.
  • A list of content, such as feature names and descriptions, that participants will prioritize.

 

Template

Feature prioritization (not available on all accounts)

 

 

First impressions

Objective

Gather feedback on a website or app from first-time visitors.

 

Good for

  • Understanding how first-time visitors describe a website's offerings.
  • Evaluating what factors impact further engagement with the site.

 

You need

A publicly accessible link to a homepage or other webpage that shows or describes your company's offerings.

 

Template

First Impressions

 

 

Cart abandonment

Objectives

  • What were participants experiences when using an online shopping cart?
  • What are the key pain points of the shopping cart experience?

 

Good for

  • Evaluating whether customers are comfortable with the information you provide in your cart experience.
  • Uncovering key pain points in your cart experience for your customer.

 

You need

A publicly accessible link, an interactive prototype or a mobile app (iOS, Android, or unreleased) where customers can add items to a shopping cart.

 

Template

Cart abandonment

 

 

Customer environment and context

Objectives

  • How do participants complete an activity in their home?
  • Where are the potential areas of improvement for that activity?

 

Good for

  • Understanding what environmental factors are important to your customers.
  • Uncovering relationships between your experience and the real world.

 

Template

Customer environment and context

 

 

Customer journey

Objectives

  • What actions do participants take, and what are the experiences and barriers encountered across multiple touchpoints?
  • Where are the potential areas of improvement across channels?

 

Good for

  • Uncovering potential areas of improvement for your experience across channels.
  • Assessing customer attributes that may be of importance for your experience.

 

You need

The activity you are looking to get feedback about.

 

Template

Customer journey

 

 

Discover needs and frustrations

Objectives

  • What are the perceived and expressed needs of participants when performing an activity?
  • How can that activity be improved?

 

Good for

  • Identifying opportunities for new features or products.
  • Understanding people's needs and pain points with current experiences.

 

You need

A description of the experience or activity that you want people to talk about. For example, "paying bills online."

 

Template

Discover needs and frustrations

 

 

Pricing feedback

Objective

How would participants respond to new pricing, promotions, or offers?

 

Good for

  • Evaluating how your target market would react to a change in product price.
  • Understanding expectations about pricing for products and services.

 

You need

A publicly accessible link for a webpage that includes information and pricing about a product or service.

 

Template

Pricing feedback

 

 

Product adoption

Objective

What drives participants to return to a product?

 

Good for

  • Gathering insights about what drives usage and adoption of your product.
  • Understand the context where the product is used.

 

You need

The name of a brand or a product you want to evaluate.

 

Template

Product adoption

 

 

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