UX Research Services

Driving Excellence in User Experience
Through Proven Strategies

  • Comprehensive UX Research Services: Online and in-person research solutions.
  • Full Service Flexibility: Tailored offerings to meet your needs and budget.
  • Versatile Programs: Supporting both one-off and ongoing research initiatives.
  • Cutting-Edge Technologies: Leverage the latest tools for next-gen research.
  • Specialized Moderation: A dedicated team for every project type.
  • Seamless Integration: Dedicated researchers working closely with your team.
  • In-House Recruitment: Ensuring quality and reliability in every study.
  • Global Coverage: Providing comprehensive research across U.S. and international markets.

UX Research Methodologies

  • In-Depth Interviews (IDIs)

  • UX Diary & Ethnography Studies

  • Usability Testing

  • Prototype & Mockup Testing

  • Online Surveys

  • A/B Testing and Split-Cell Research Designs

  • Persona Development

  • Journey Mapping

  • Rolling Research UX Programs

  • Pop-Up Communities

  • Insight Communities

  • Other Methodologies

In-Depth Interviews (IDIs)

Unlock deep insights and dig into your customers’ thoughts with our In-Depth Interviews (IDIs).

Conducted online or in-person, these one-on-one sessions create a confidential environment for participants to discuss their experiences and motivations.

IDIs provide detailed, nuanced information, ideal for exploring complex issues, understanding customer journeys, and identifying subtle factors that influence decision-making.

UX Diary & Ethnography Studies

Immerse yourself in your users’ experiences with our Diary & Ethnography Studies.

Participants document their daily interactions with products through detailed diary activity logs, screen captures, and more, allowing for a more longitudinal glimpse into their interactions over the course of a project. UX Diary studies can be focused on organic behaviors, targeted activities and tasks, or a mix of both.

This asynchronous approach provides deep contextual insights into users’ habits, preferences, and unmet needs, revealing key factors influencing behavior, all from their natural environments.

Usability Testing

Enable your users to interact with your digital products, and observe their behaviors, experience, and real-time reactions.

Conducted asynchronously or in live sessions, usability testing allows you to monitor users as they interact with your digital product, often with a structured focus on specific tasks, and assessing how well these tasks are completed.

Usability testing delivers critical insights into user behavior and task efficiency, making it an optimal tool for fine-tuning design and functionality. By pinpointing where users encounter difficulties, this method helps you make informed decisions that enhance user satisfaction and improve product usability.

Prototype & Mockup Testing

Gather valuable, real-time feedback on your UX mockups, prototypes, and concepts.

Utilizing a variety of methods such as In-Depth Interviews (IDIs), Diary Studies, and more, we can explore user interactions with new concepts and gather feedback at various stages of development. This helps identify strengths, uncover weaknesses, and highlight areas for improvement, ensuring the final product meets user expectations and needs.

Testing prototypes prior to full-scale development and launch helps in refining digital experiences, validating ideas, and making informed design decisions.

Online Surveys

Tailored Online Surveys for In-Depth UX Insights.

Our online surveys for UX research are designed to provide nuanced insights into user experiences, behaviors, and preferences. By leveraging a diverse range of methodologies, we create surveys that are specifically tailored to meet your unique UX research objectives. Whether you’re assessing user satisfaction, testing new features, or gathering feedback on interface design, our flexible survey designs ensure you capture the most relevant and actionable data. Our expertise in crafting UX-focused surveys allows us to adapt to the complexities of user research, delivering insights that drive informed design decisions and enhance user experiences across various digital platforms.

A/B Testing and Split-Cell Research Designs

Systematically compare website or app alternatives to identify the winning design.

Whether you are looking for quantitative or qualitative insights, we can incorporate an A/B test or split-cell design to provide clear direction on which mockup best delivers on your KPIs.

Persona Development

Our Persona Development process is centered around crafting detailed user profiles that inform strategic decisions.

Through synthesizing qualitative research insights from diverse methodologies, such as in-depth interviews, diaries, and more, we uncover nuanced user behaviors, motivations, and needs. These insights are then used to create profiles of your core target users.

These personas serve as strategic tools, offering a clear understanding of your target audience’s preferences, habits, and behaviors. Personas are designed to reflect real-world user experiences, and ensure your digital products meet and exceed user expectations.

Journey Mapping

Gain visibility into your users’ interactions with our Journey Mapping services.

Our Customer Journey Mapping process is dedicated to visualizing the full user experience journey with your product or platform. By determining each touchpoint and interaction, we uncover critical insights into user behaviors, pain points, and moments of delight. Through qualitative research methodologies such as in-depth interviews, usability testing, and observational studies, we gather comprehensive data to create insightful journey maps that illuminate your users’ pathways and emotions at each stage.

Journey maps serve as strategic tools, offering a clear and holistic view of your customers’ experiences. They enable your team to identify opportunities for improvement, optimize key touchpoints, and ensure seamless interactions. By crafting and visualizing real-world user experiences, we help you to enhance customer satisfaction, as well as drive growth and engagement.

Rolling Research UX Programs

Stay engaged with your users with our Rolling Research UX Programs.

These ongoing, regularly scheduled sessions address a wide range of questions efficiently and quickly, and can allow for quick-turn feedback during design sprints.

Tailored to your needs, they provide continuous insights on usability or design issues and digital experiences, helping you stay in touch with your users, develop optimal solutions to meet their needs, and drive platform engagement.

Pop-Up Communities

Short-term communities designed to gather quick, focused feedback from your audience.

Actionable Insights: Obtain clear, actionable insights on a specific objective that can be immediately implemented.

Flexible Duration: Run your community for a few days or several weeks, depending on the scope and goals of your research.

Targeted Recruitment: Engage with precisely targeted participants recruited to meet your specific demographic/behavioral needs.

Scalable Solutions: Easily scale the community size or length as research requirements and objectives shift.

Rapid Feedback: Get quick responses and reactions to your questions, concepts, prototypes, etc.

Insight Communities

Foster deeper connections with your users through our Insight Communities.

This dedicated online platform allows for continuous engagement and feedback, providing real-time insights into consumer behaviors, experiences, and preferences.

By integrating qualitative and quantitative methods, we facilitate in-depth UX findings through quick polls, surveys, screen captures, videos, other media uploads, and more. This multi-dimensional approach delivers rich, actionable insights, enabling you to stay connected to your audience’s evolving needs and make informed strategic decisions.

Other Methodologies

We also support additional UX research methodologies, including:

  • Custom Multi-Method/Hybrid Projects
  • Parent/Child Pairs
  • Friendship Pairs

UX Research Services

  • Ideation / Design Consulting
  • Participant Screening and
    Recruitment
  • Project Setup and Management
  • Facility Booking and Coordination
  • Discussion Guide Development
  • Translation & Localization
  • Cross-Market Analysis
  • Moderation
  • Transcription
  • Data Processing & Banner Tabulation
  • Open-End Coding
  • Video Highlight Reel Development
  • Normative Databases
  • Reporting & Analysis
  • Incentive Distribution
Kids / Gen Alpha
Teens
Young Adults /
Gen Z
Adults & Parents
Educators
Creators & Influencers
Generative AI
VR / AR
Multicultural
And More!

Industry Expertise

  • Technology
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Youth & Family
  • Food, Beverage, & Restaurant
  • Consumer Packaged Goods
  • Toys & Gaming
  • Sports, Wellness, & Fitness
  • Education
  • Retail & Apparel
  • Healthcare

Trusted by Top Global Brands

Kroger
Google
Nick
M TV
Strottman
Wendys
ESPN
YouTube
Sony
Paramount
Cotton
Columbia University
Nice Pak
Sirius XM
Pluto TV
Compassion
Go Health
Carnival
Calm
Sling
Meta
Zearn
Mattel
Good to Grow
Disney
The wonderful company
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Great Minds
Harvard University
Sesame Workshop
The Goliath Group
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What Our Clients Are Saying About Us

  • Touchstone Research has been an invaluable partner in our product design process, helping us reach a hard-to-reach population (K-12) students, and upholding the highest standards around safety and accessibility for participants. They have been flexible, and creative, accommodating diverse digital methodologies, and sometimes sourcing interview respondents with very short notice when a last-minute research need pops up. They foster trust with participants, and make sure they are prepared and able to fully participate. Touchstone is also mindful of sourcing panels that are diverse and representative of a variety of geographies, and social/cultural identities. Having worked with other research panels in the past, Touchstone has the best customer service, and panel quality. We plan to keep working together for the foreseeable future!

    UX Research Department

    Ed-Tech Company

  • We were in search of a vendor that would be adaptable enough to accommodate our diverse and evolving testing requirements, given that our product is highly content-driven and scaling rapidly. Touchstone has been very open to this type of partnership, offering a flexible model of full-service testing alongside ad hoc opportunities that allow us to maintain ownership over the aspects of user research that we prefer to manage ourselves. This allows us to more efficiently implement usability testing and recruitment for user research into our weekly and monthly practices while continuing to build our internal skillset. With the knowledge gained in our user research efforts with Touchstone, we have been empowered to make more data informed decisions about our product by keeping user behavior and motivation at the forefront of our work. Along with being flexible in our partnership model, Touchstone has supported this effort by offering a dedicated team that continues to learn about our unique product and business needs and provides quick turnaround for recruitment, facilitation, and topline reports.

    Sr. Digital Product Manager

    Ed-Tech Company

  • The team at Touchstone is wonderful to work with. They have been instrumental ongoing partners for us in many of our research initiatives, ranging from quick-turn projects with our online communities to more complex and larger scale studies utilizing in-depth-interviews, online diaries and more. They are highly communicative, responsive to our needs, and offer great client support. We have gained so many invaluable insights through our various research studies with Touchstone and feel very fortunate to partner with this consistent, hard-working team.

    Vice President, Streaming Research & Insights

    Media & Entertainment Company

  • We have done quite a few Quant and Qual research projects with Touchstone. They are always extremely responsive, flexible, and provide great recommendations on how to get the most out of our research. We are a small/medium sized company that doesn’t always get the best support when working with research firms due to our size; however, Touchstone always treats us like a very valued customer. They routinely have the quickest turnaround time and provide a lot of value for the cost when it comes to the different research projects we are looking to execute. I would highly recommend working with Touchstone on your future research projects.

    Director, Product Marketing & eComm

    Food & Beverage Company

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