Digital Experience & Growth
Usability Testing
Empirical evaluation of software interfaces with real users to uncover task friction, navigation errors and comprehension gaps.
Capability overview
What usability testing involves
Usability testing provides direct, empirical evidence of how real users interact with your software interfaces. We organize and facilitate moderated and unmoderated testing sessions where representative target users complete realistic operational scenarios.
Our usability experts measure task completion rates, time-on-task, error frequency and subjective satisfaction metrics (SUS). The resulting findings report provides clear, prioritized recommendations for interface enhancements linked to empirical evidence.
By observing real users navigate your product, we uncover hidden usability bugs and misunderstandings that automated tools miss. This testing validates product changes before wide customer deployment.
Our usability testing deliverables include video session recordings, task completion metrics, System Usability Scale (SUS) scores and prioritized UX bug reports. We provide clear evidence for interface iterations.
We provide dedicated engineering oversight, automated telemetry tracking and structured technical handovers for moderated user testing and unmoderated remote testing, ensuring long-term operational resilience.
What is included
What the engagement covers
Moderated User Testing
Facilitating live, one-on-one testing sessions with expert evaluators guiding users through scenario tasks.
Unmoderated Remote Testing
Running asynchronous usability tests across diverse user panels to collect rapid quantitative task success data.
Accessibility Usability Testing
Testing interfaces directly with users with disabilities utilizing screen readers, magnification and adaptive hardware.
Quantitative Usability Scoring
Calculating System Usability Scale (SUS) scores and task completion metrics to benchmark performance before and after redesigns.
How we work
How we deliver usability testing
Test Protocol Design
Defining realistic test scenarios, user task prompts, success criteria, post-task questions and pre-test screening questionnaires.
Participant Recruitment
Sourcing and screening representative target users matching specified demographic, professional and technical profiles.
Test Facilitation
Executing testing sessions, recording screen video, eye-tracking audio, click paths and evaluator observation notes.
Video & Metric Analysis
Coding user behaviors, categorizing usability breakdowns by severity level and compiling statistical performance scores.
Actionable Reporting
Delivering a video-backed findings report, highlight reel and prioritized redesign recommendations to product owners.
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Digital Experience Optimization
Continuous qualitative and quantitative enhancement of digital touchpoints across the entire customer lifecycle.
UX Research
Empirical user research that reveals how employees and customers interact with your products, identifying friction points and unmet operational needs.
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Questions & answers
Questions about Usability Testing
Cannot find what you need? Our team responds to technical and commercial questions within one business day.
Ask a questionIndustry standards show that testing with five to eight representative participants per user cohort reveals over eighty percent of core usability defects.
Yes, we run both remote online testing using platforms like UserTesting and Lookback, as well as in-person usability lab sessions.
Usability testing is priced as a fixed-fee project including participant recruitment, incentive management, testing facilitation and reporting.
Next step
Discuss usability testing with Acmez
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