Leeds & West Yorkshire · In-person or remote
Usability Testing in Leeds
We are based in Leeds, so in-person sessions here do not carry travel costs or a London day rate, and we recruit participants locally across West Yorkshire. Watch real users navigate your website, app, or product and find exactly where they get lost, confused, or give up.
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Why usability testing matters
Whether you are a startup building your first product, a scale-up refining your platform, or an established business redesigning customer journeys - usability testing tells you what works and what does not before you commit budget to fixing it later.
We help organisations validate designs, spot barriers to conversion, identify accessibility issues, and make confident product decisions backed by real user evidence. Not assumptions. Not analytics alone. Actual people, on camera, showing you what happens.
Remote sessions reach users anywhere in the UK. In-person sessions go where the research needs to be: your offices, a local facility, or participants' own environments, wherever they are across the UK.
What we test
From pre-launch prototypes to live digital products, we run usability sessions that surface the friction, confusion, and barriers your users actually experience.
Websites & Web Apps
Test navigation, user flows, checkout processes, forms, and content clarity. Spot where users get stuck, confused, or give up.
Mobile Apps
iOS and Android app testing. Watch real users complete tasks, navigate features, and experience your app for the first time.
SaaS Platforms
Test dashboards, admin panels, complex workflows, and feature adoption. Reduce support tickets and increase activation rates.
Prototypes & Designs
Validate Figma prototypes, wireframes, or early concepts before development. Test the idea when changes are still cheap to make.
Booking & Transactional Journeys
Ecommerce checkouts, booking flows, account creation. Find where users drop off and why conversion rates are not higher than they should be.
Accessibility Testing
Test with keyboard navigation, screen readers, and users with disabilities. Meet WCAG standards and avoid excluding customers who need your product most.
Digital Health & NHS Products
Usability testing for patient-facing apps, clinical tools, and healthcare digital services. We understand NHS contexts and can work alongside PPIE programmes.
Medical Devices & Regulated Products
Task-based usability studies for medical devices and regulated software. Human factors evidence and design validation to support regulatory submissions.
How usability testing works
Remote sessions for speed and reach across the UK. In-person sessions wherever the research needs to happen: your site, a local facility, or participants' own environments. Either way, the process is the same.
1. Discovery call
We discuss what you are testing, who needs to use it, and what decisions you need to make. Usually 30-45 minutes and free of charge.
2. Research design
We plan the sessions: who to recruit, what tasks to test, what questions to ask. You approve everything before we recruit a single participant.
3. Participant recruitment
We find real users who match your target audience. UK-wide panel for remote and in-person sessions. We recruit wherever your participants are, locally, regionally, or nationally. Screened, incentivised, and scheduled.
4. Testing sessions
Moderated 1-on-1 sessions (usually 45-60 mins each). We observe, prompt, and probe. You can watch live or review recordings afterwards.
5. Analysis & findings
We synthesise what we saw: critical issues, medium friction points, and quick wins. Prioritised for your team to act on immediately.
6. Actionable report
Clear findings with video clips, severity ratings, and recommended fixes. Plain English for stakeholders, enough detail for designers and developers.
Remote or in-person
Both approaches deliver strong findings. We help you choose based on what you are testing, who your users are, and how quickly you need answers.
Remote usability testing
Fast and flexible. Test anywhere in the UK. Access to broader participant pools. Lower cost per session. Perfect for websites, apps, and digital products where location does not affect the experience.
We use Zoom, Teams, or your preferred platform. Moderated sessions where we guide users through tasks and ask follow-up questions in real-time. Recordings available for your team to review.
Best for: Digital products, national audiences, quick validation, prototype testing, when you need 8-12 sessions completed in a week.
In-person testing across the UK
Deeper observation. Pick up body language, environment, and physical context. Test hardware alongside software. Build rapport for sensitive topics or complex journeys.
We test at your office, in research facilities, or in participants' own homes and workplaces, wherever makes sense for the research and the people taking part. We go to where the communities and users are, across the whole of the UK. Stakeholders can observe live or join remotely.
Best for: Complex B2B tools, elderly or digitally excluded users, medical devices and hardware, sensitive healthcare topics, when stakeholder buy-in requires seeing users first-hand.
Who we recruit
The right participants make or break usability research. We find people who genuinely match your users - not professional panel respondents who have done this hundreds of times.
Your target users
We screen participants against your actual audience criteria - demographics, behaviours, product familiarity, job roles, health conditions, whatever defines your user base.
UK-wide panels
Targeting national users? We access participants across the UK and filter by any criteria that matter to your product. Quick turnaround for most audiences.
Specialist audiences
B2B decision makers, healthcare professionals, carers, people with specific access needs, or rare conditions. We find them through professional networks and specialist partners.
Leeds & Yorkshire participants
Need local users for in-person sessions or regional research? We recruit through community networks and local panels across West Yorkshire and beyond.
Usability testing packages
Transparent pricing for businesses across the UK. From quick validation studies to comprehensive research programmes.
Quick Validation
Essentials
Fast feedback to test an assumption, validate a design direction, or get early signal before you invest further.
- 4-5 remote usability sessions
- Screened participant recruitment
- Research design and moderation
- Findings presentation with video clips
- Prioritised recommendations
- 2-3 week turnaround
Comprehensive Testing
Impact
Thorough usability research with enough sessions to spot patterns, edge cases, and segment differences across your user base.
- 8-10 moderated sessions
- Advanced participant screening
- Detailed research protocol
- Session recordings and transcripts
- Comprehensive findings report
- Stakeholder presentation
- 3-4 week turnaround
Multi-Phase
Custom Programme
Ongoing research partnership. Test across multiple user segments, product iterations, or combine usability testing with other research methods.
- Tailored research design
- Multiple testing rounds
- Mixed methods available
- Diverse participant segments
- Embedded researcher support
- Flexible delivery timeline
All packages include: Participant incentives, session recording and storage, synthesis and analysis, video clip highlights, and clear documentation your team can act on immediately.
In-person sessions: Add £1,400–£1,800 per day for in-person testing (venue hire, travel, facilitator time). We will quote precisely based on your location and needs.
Who we work with
Startups and scale-ups, digital agencies, healthcare organisations, fintech platforms, and ecommerce businesses who need confident product decisions backed by evidence from real users.
Common questions about usability testing in Leeds
Do you run usability testing in Leeds?
Yes. We are based in West Yorkshire and run both in-person usability testing at venues in Leeds and remote moderated testing for participants and clients anywhere across the UK. In-person sessions are useful when testing physical products or when observing body language matters to the research.
Can participants come to a venue in Leeds or West Yorkshire?
Yes. We can arrange in-person testing at venues across Leeds and West Yorkshire, handling venue sourcing, accessibility requirements, and participant travel. If you have your own Leeds office or testing facility, we can also work there.
How many participants do you recruit for a usability test?
Most usability testing projects use five to eight participants per audience segment. Five participants typically surface around 80 percent of the main usability issues. For more complex products, multiple audience types, or accessibility testing, larger samples are scoped accordingly.
How much does usability testing in Leeds cost?
Projects start from £5,500 for a focused study with five to six participants. A core study with eight to ten participants typically runs from £9,500. Comprehensive multi-session programmes start from £16,000. All costs include recruitment, incentives, facilitation, analysis, and a findings report.
How long does a usability testing project take?
A focused study typically takes two to three weeks from briefing to findings. Quick validation studies with a simple audience profile and remote sessions can move in as little as one week. Larger projects with in-person sessions or specialist recruitment typically take three to four weeks.
Related services
Usability testing answers what happens. These services help you understand why, involve users earlier, or validate for regulated contexts.
UX Research
Deeper discovery research - user interviews, diary studies, and contextual enquiry to understand the why behind behaviour.
UX research servicesPPIE & Patient Involvement
Running usability testing alongside PPIE? We combine both for healthcare and digital health projects that need involvement and evaluation evidence.
PPIE servicesDesign Validation
Rigorous human factors testing for medical devices and regulated products. Task-based validation studies for regulatory submissions.
Design validationAI Product Testing
Testing a chatbot, copilot, or recommendation feature? We test AI powered products with real users, not synthetic data.
AI product testingUser Research in Leeds
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User research in LeedsWhat Is Usability Testing?
New to the method? A plain-English guide to what usability testing is, the different types, and when to use it.
Read the guideWe fully recognise the effort your team invested in recruitment, moderation, and analysis, and we genuinely appreciate the quality of the discussions and reporting.
- Usability problems in an insulin device surfaced before manufacturing locked anything in, with human factors evidence supporting the regulatory submission.
- An NHS patient portal team got a prioritised, evidenced list of adoption barriers, and the highest-leverage fix wasn't the one they expected.
- Patient involvement changed a trial's primary endpoint before the protocol was finalised, cited by the ethics committee as a model for evidencing PPIE.
Trusted PPI and PPIE delivery partner to the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care.
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