Usability Testing · Durham
Usability Testing in Durham
Watching real people try to use your product and finding out where they get stuck. For Durham businesses with a working system that customers still abandon, this answers the question analytics cannot: not where people left, but what they were trying to do when they gave up.
Why this comes up
The problem
Everyone inside a business knows how their own product works, so nobody can see what is confusing about it. Analytics show the drop-off point and say nothing about the reason for it.
What you get
What we deliver
- Participants recruited to match your actual users, not colleagues or friends
- Task-based sessions where people attempt real jobs rather than give opinions
- Recordings of what people did, with the moments that matter timestamped
- Findings ranked by how many participants hit them and how badly it hurt
- Specific recommended changes, not a list of observations to interpret yourself
- A retest after changes ship, to confirm the fix worked rather than assuming
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what usability testing would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Ecommerce
- SaaS platforms
- Financial services
- Public sector suppliers
- Healthcare
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Usability Testing in Durham — common questions
- How many people do we need to test with?
- Fewer than most expect. Five to eight participants per user group surfaces the large majority of serious problems, because the same obstacles recur quickly. Spending the budget on more participants rather than on fixing what the first five found is the common mistake.
- Can we not just ask customers what they want?
- Asking produces opinions; watching produces evidence. People are reliably poor at predicting their own behaviour and reluctant to say a product confused them. Task-based observation avoids both problems.
- Do we need a finished product to test?
- No, and earlier is cheaper. A prototype or even a clickable design surfaces structural confusion while it is still inexpensive to change, which is the whole argument for doing this before build rather than after launch.
- What if the findings say we built the wrong thing?
- Then you have found out at the cheapest point you ever will. We report what happened rather than softening it, because a comfortable report that changes nothing is not worth commissioning.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Usability Testing in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise