Introducing AI-led Design Testing: Test design concepts in hours

Whether you're working at an early stage startup or an established enterprise, you've undoubtedly experienced first hand how quickly customer, market and business needs change. To continue growing their products, it's now more important than ever for product teams to quickly iterate on their product offerings and incorporate feedback from real users throughout the product design process. At the same time, it seems that product teams are busier than ever before, and poorly served by modern design testing tools.

This is especially true when it comes to assumption testing. And yet, many product designers feel the only way they can get feedback from users is by painstakingly building high fidelity interactive prototype tests to test simple assumptions. We think there's a better way, which is why we’re so excited to announce the launch of AI-led Design Testing - the fastest way for you to get in-depth feedback and insights about your designs with the help of AI-led user interviewing.

What is Design Testing?

Design Tests allow you to display static images, such as designs of your website or mobile app, and then capture feedback on your designs with our AI-led user interviews. Our AI-led interviewer will then formulate questions to ask your participants based on your research goals, helping you understand their reactions and understanding of the design. As the participants leave their responses, our purpose-built AI helps you dig deeper by dynamically asking tailored follow-up questions based on what your participants answer.

How does Design Testing work?

Adding a Design Test to a study in Wondering is easy. In the study builder, add a Show block and then upload the image you’d like to display in your study.

Participants in your study will be shown your design next to the questions in your AI-led user interview. The AI-interviewer is context aware, and understands the content of your design, what your participant responds to its questions and then formulates follow up questions based on the participant response and your research goals.

Finally, each response you collect in your studies gets automatically transcribed and analyzed by our AI, helping you get insights as quickly as possible.

When should you choose AI-led design testing?

Testing designs ahead of development is widely recognised as best practice. However, this is usually done by sharing a high fidelity prototype with participants which takes up a lot of time and slows down the rate of learning. In fact, we’re so passionate about this topic, we wrote a blog about it recently - check it out here.

To help bring this to life, we’ve pulled together some examples of where Design Testing can help you test new designs and concepts faster

Information comprehension: The layout of your design and the copy you use is critical to success. Sadly, most of us don't have the luxury of a copywriter on our team. Upload an image of your designs and use AI-led Design Testing to interview users and learn how they react to your design.

Pain point identification and fixes: When working on a product we often know that people drop off at a specific screen but aren't sure why. Use Design testing to identify that why and test designs that you think will address the issues you uncover.

Feature discoverability: When adding a new feature it's essential that your users can find it and want to engage with it. Use Design testing to test if your new feature is easy to find - if not, then this is the best time to improve it.

Launch your first Design Test to our panel in 5 minutes

Curious to get feedback on a design you’re working on, or a new concept that you need to test with potential customers? Sign up here to launch your first AI-led Design Test within 5 minutes, and then launch it to our global panel of over 120K testers or your own customers directly on your website.

Happy researching!

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Tom Watkins

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