"The client doesn't care about your tools—they just care about the information."

“In beta tests, it’s important to identify patterns. But we want to understand what’s causing those patterns, and to understand if they’re problems. Capturing those candid moments that users spend with the product allows you to determine when to take action—that’s key.”

"Okay, we're going to have a six-week study and we’ve locked in the primary questions we want to ask.”

“There’s that sense of realness being there in the environment surrounded by the sounds and the different products. We learned that sustainability is a really complex multi-factored concept that means a lot of different things to different people; be it organic, grass-fed, animal welfare, or recycled packaging.”

“I started recruiting partially with dscout. We wanted to test with 12 users. Six non-users of our products and six current users—who we’d already had recruited. We put them in separately and onboarded them with dscout.”

“With dscout's mobile Live interviews, you could tell folks felt comfortable sharing moments, experiences, and impressions more freely. There was a sense of intimacy and safety that's critical to what we're building.”

"Though we had a single learning goal, we still prioritized a mixed methods approach, a survey from research, and product analytics with data science. This enabled us to understand what was happening, by unpacking both behavioral and attitudinal data, the what, and beginning to understand the why. By combining research …

"I knew I had strong feelings after working on the team as a researcher for several years about where I wanted ReOps to focus its efforts, and I did not want to unintentionally interpret the diary study submissions through that lens. We are not a user research team of one …

"The project started in December, which was holiday shopping season—it actually seemed like a perfect time to do a diary study and ask people about their shopping experiences, because people are doing a lot of online shopping during that time."

“dscout offered us a complete understanding. Usability problems are glaringly important from an evaluative perspective. In a typical usability test, we'll see someone encounter something once over the course of an interview. But when we're seeing people encountering things over and over, it's definitely a signal that they're more important.”

“Getting kids to speak freely about things on their own time and in their own language can be a challenge, and that’s why we paired dscout’s mobile ethnographic approach with in-home interviews.”

"dscout helps non-researchers empathize with our users. The platform enables us to capture the voice of the customer and share their perspectives throughout Lenovo."

“We pulled only Lenovo product owners out of the screener for our mission, but have all other data back-logged."

“We believe that technology is smarter if it improves human outcomes. Smarter technology is human-centered technology, and our mission is to make smarter technology for all. At Lenovo, it's important to us for everyone to be able to equally access and experience our products and content.”

“One participant from our study who is 61 and has profound hearing loss expressed how appreciative he is of the flexibility and choices we offered by saying that, I was pleasantly surprised that the study organizers offered me choices on accessibility and the cherry on the ice cream was “we …