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Nikita Goncharov's avatar

Thank you for this post! I will share it with our research team. Hope, we are going to try Lookback for interviews) In my turn, I suggest trying Miro for collaboration things :)

Roy Opata Olende's avatar

Thanks for the recommendation, Nikita. I absolutely love Miro but our team has been using MURAL for sooooo long. I think switching would be too tedious right now. I like Lookback: I see potential to use it for much more UXR work as they continue to build out their product.

Shayta Saha's avatar

Thoroughly enjoyed this post - thank you for this. I'm using a basic Google spreadsheet for panel management however I'm looking into tapping into our internal Salesforce platform for this purpose. Its still early days and I'm not entirely sure about feasibility of this tactic, but I'll let you know how it goes!

Roy Opata Olende's avatar

I'd love to hear how it goes, Shatya. We've got to tackle the panel management side, too.

Erin May's avatar

Love reading about people's UXR stacks. 🤓 Look forward to learning more about your Calendly/Zapier setup!

Sridhar Rajendran's avatar

Thanks for sharing this Roy. While I prefer Zoom too, but we had a big time issue while working on a project. Surprisingly a lot of participants were unable to use or had network connectivity issues. So we switched to Whereby and it worked like a charm. The best part is, it doesn’t require any prior installation.

However doing remote moderated testing on mobile is still a challenge. I have noticed people get confused how to share their screen and a lot of troubleshooting goes on to fix it. That’s one reason why we do prefer to test even mobile prototypes on a desktop browser. It’s not perfect but at least works.

Roy Opata Olende's avatar

Lookback is really good for mobile testing. I'm not affiliated with them...so no insider info here.

Snigdha Diehl's avatar

Thanks for sharing! We use Validately for unmoderated research, Pendo for in product surveys and analytics, and SurveyMonkey for email surveys.

Roy Opata Olende's avatar

Thanks for sharing, Snigdha!

Alexander Knoll's avatar

Great post Roy! Of course I can recommend https://condens.io/ for synthesis and as a research repository

Roy Opata Olende's avatar

Looking forward to learning more about Condens, Alex!

Gautam Kasturi's avatar

Good information. Thanks Roy.

Unrelated to UX but I am curious to know what would Zapier's testing tech stack look like... can you prompt one of your Test Leads to write about that.

Roy Opata Olende's avatar

I'll see what I can do, Gautam. :)