Studies & blocks

Start with a name, not a file

Press Create study, give it a name, then choose what it opens as. Nothing is imported yet - and that inversion is deliberate. Deciding what to ask people is the thinking; pasting a Figma link is the errand. A prototype is imported at the first block that actually needs one, and a study made only of questions or an uploaded image never asks for one at all.

Templates

After naming it, pick what it starts as. Every template arrives with its blocks and its questions already written - not empty placeholders - so the first thing you do is edit something real rather than assemble something from nothing. All of it is editable afterwards; nothing a template puts in is locked.

• Blank study. An intro screen, a task and a thank-you - what almost every usability study is. Build the rest yourself.
• Survey. Two pages of questions, ready to send. No prototype needed at any point.
• Prototype test. A short pre-test page, a briefing, one task on your prototype, then the questions that measure it - single-ease first, while the task is fresh.
• 5-second test. One screen shown for five seconds, then five recall questions.

Your own presets

Once you've built a study you like the shape of, open Study settings and choose Save as preset. It captures that study's sequence and its questions under a name, and the next study can start from it. Nothing it has collected is copied, and the preset stops following the study the moment you save it - editing one never changes the other.

• Shared, or just yours. Save a preset for everyone on the team - a house format colleagues can build from - or keep it to yourself. Team presets outlive whoever saved them.
• Reusable without collision. Every study made from a preset is fully independent: deleting a block in one never touches another.

The blocks

+ Add block offers two kinds of step, which is the distinction you actually make when building: blocks that give somebody something to do, and blocks that put something in front of them and ask.

• Prototype test. A task on your prototype - give them a goal to reach, or set them loose to explore with no goal at all.
• First click. Show one screen and record where they'd click first.
• A/B variants. Show one of several versions of a screen at random, and compare the arms.
• Questions. Ask something at this point in the sequence - see Questions & ratings.
• 5-second test. Show one screen for a few seconds, then ask what they remember. Runs on an uploaded image by default, so the cheapest study in the product doesn't open by demanding a Figma import.
• Instructions. A briefing shown just before a task starts.
• Image or video. Show something that isn't the prototype.
• Intro and thank-you screens. Always there, always first and last. A study introduces itself once and closes once, so these two can't be moved or removed - only written.

Building it

• Three columns. The sequence on the left, the selected block's editor in the middle, and a live preview on the right running the whole thing as a participant gets it.
• Drag to reorder. The order in the rail is the order they walk. The intro and thank-you stay pinned to the ends.
• Nothing to save. There is no Save button and there are no drafts. A study exists from the moment you name it, so edits go straight to it - the indicator just tells you when the last one landed.
• Show a block only sometimes. Any block can be gated on an answer given earlier in the sequence, so a follow-up task can depend on what somebody just said.
• One prototype per study. Import once and every block that runs on a prototype uses it - a second task costs no second import.

Study settings

Decisions that hold across every block live above the sequence, in Study settings: which devices may take it (anyone on anything else is told so rather than handed a run that won't represent them), whether to run on the live Figma prototype instead of the reconstruction, whether to ask for a screen recording, and Save as preset. Deleting the study lives here too, and only here.