Tools used for UI/UX Testing

There are many tools in the market for UI/UX testing, here is the list of the more useful tools widely accepted and used by the industry:

UserTesting:

UserTesting is one of the most popular tool for Testing the design, specially for mobile testing. UserTesting is widely used in the industry even by companies like Canva, GoDaddy, Microsoft, HP, etc. The most recent feature that they have added it their catalog is AI based analysis for better UI/UX. UserTesting provides us flexible pricing and you can choose to pay as per the three plans introduced by them:

1. Essentials
2. Advanced
3. Ultimate

Features of UserTesting includes:

• Test builder and template gallery.
• You can even filter the users by Demographic.
• A dedicated Dashboard and metrics for how the design is performing.
• You can also get the Transcripts of the user Interviews.
• Integrations with applications like Slack, Jira, and Trello.
• Sentiment analysis to check if the product appeals to the user’s emotion or not.
• Card sorting and tree testing methods of UI/UX testing.
• Safe and Secured prototype testing.
• AI-powered analysis and insights.

Optimal Workshop:

Optimal Workshop is one of the best tool for working on User navigation and User Experience. If you are actually building information architecture, then this tool will be a great choice. Optimal Workshop is widely used in the industry even by companies like IBM, Uber, yelp, etc.

Features offered by Optimal Workshop are:

• UX research methods like card sorting.
• Tree testing: a method for testing the structure or architecture of any product’s design.
• Qualitative research.
• First-click testing.
• Online surveys for feedbacks from the users.

Lookback:

Lookback is widely used in the industry even by companies like Google, Nike, Spotify, Facebook, Netflix etc. There are two types of interviews you can do while UI/UX testing – Moderated interviews and Unmoderated interviews. And Lookback helps us with both type of user interviews.

Features offered by Lookback are:

• Usability testing for testing your application and website in mobile a well as larger devices.
• User Interviews for getting feedback.

In this fast-happening world, every business and every team wants to release the next update or the next application as soon as possible, because of this teams or UI/UX designers often miss out on a very important thing – properly testing the design. But why does this even matter? who focuses on testing anyways? can the users not give us feedback after release rather than taking feedback through testing? These are the questions designers ask and in this article, we will answer these questions.

In this article, we will discuss the need for testing in UI/UX, why it is so important, and why you must add it to your UI/UX workflow if you haven’t. But before that, we will start from the basics about what Usability testing or UI/UX testing is.