Test your design concepts
Get immediate answers from real users. Create and share usability tests, and collect valuable insights throughout your product’s life cycle.
Test your prototype concepts
Get valuable user feedback on your concept sketches, wireframes, and prototypes with Helio. From the early stages of design to the final prototypes, we help you test every step of the user experience.
Tailor usability tests to your needs
Create simple or dynamic tests to gain valuable product insights and user needs. Explore Helio’s versatile features, including prototype tests, Click Tests, Freeform Questions, Card Sorting, 5-second Tests, and more.
Maximize the value of your product
Test prototypes and live versions with different activity types that can be tailored to your users’ behavior. Gain valuable insights into user actions, successful paths, and any roadblocks encountered along the way.
Unlock the secrets of great product design
Empower product managers
Level up your product design process
Supercharge your product team
Fast Feedback, Better Design with Usability Testing
Create a usability test in minutes
Create a usability test quickly and easily with Helio’s intuitive platform and expert-made templates. Customize your test with customized questions.
Select an audience
Select one of our audience panels, recruit relevant participants from your own product or app, or share the test with external users via a link.
Choose usability questions
Create a multi-task test by selecting a prototype question, card sort, tree test or first click test.
Filter and share data reports
Real-time report updates give you a front-row seat to watch participants answer your survey and test questions.
Experience the power of continuous product discovery
Accelerate your prototype development at every stage
Take your design prototypes and mockups to the next level by incorporating tests at each stage of development. This seamless process empowers you to iterate quickly and execute multiple tests throughout the product development lifecycle. Gain valuable insights from testing at every step!
Automated metrics that drive discovery
Helio empowers you to transform responses into valuable insights through usability testing, from bounce rates and misclicks to clickmaps. Provide your team with visually-rich real-time data that can be acted upon within hours.
Discover the key actions your users take first
Helio empowers you to transform responses into valuable insights through usability testing, from bounce rates and misclicks to clickmaps. Provide your team with visually-rich real-time data that can be acted upon within hours.
Uncover how people organize information
Create content that aligns with user thinking. Card sorting reveals user mental models, enabling you to design an effective information structure. Helio provides participants with a user-friendly and enjoyable online card-sorting experience.
Improve the discoverability of your content
Discover the areas where people tend to get lost and determine the reasons behind it, then take action to fix it. Utilize tree testing to assess how easy it is for users to find and understand the structure of your website, app, or intranet. By testing, refining, and validating your design choices, you can create a user-friendly digital experience that is easy for your users to navigate.
We frequently incorporate the insights gained from Helio into our discussions with stakeholders and business partners. This data integration serves as a foundation for justifying our decisions. We use the user findings from Helio to construct a narrative that supports our business case.
– Megan Kilkenny, Patelco
Concept Testing
Prototype Tests
Content Testing
User Surveys
First Click Testing
Card Sorting
Tree Testing
Data Visualization
Usability Tests FAQs
Usability testing is evaluating a product or service by testing it with representative users. The goal is to identify usability problems, collect qualitative and quantitative data, and assess participant satisfaction.
The benefits of usability testing include identifying and addressing issues early in the development process, minimizing costs in terms of time and impact on schedule, measuring task completion time, determining user satisfaction, identifying areas for improvement, and evaluating performance against usability objectives.
No, usability testing can be done in various settings, a room with portable recording equipment, a room without recording equipment (as long as someone observes and takes notes), or remotely with Helio where the user is in a different location.
The cost of usability testing depends on factors like the number of questions, team size, number of participants, and testing duration. It’s important to budget monthly for continuous usability tests as the process is iterative. Plan for time required to prepare, run tests, analyze data, write reports, and present findings.