{"id":8515,"date":"2018-04-05T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T11:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usersnap.com\/?p=8515"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:34:06","slug":"user-tests-5-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usersnap.com\/blog\/user-tests-5-users\/","title":{"rendered":"How to test your application with 5 users before you launch!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Building a successful digital product means developing products with your users and customers in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

89% of customers will switch to a competitor if they are not happy with your service or digital offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s as simple as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the good news is: You only need to test your digital product with 5 users before you launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 5 user tests help you identify most major usability issues and, therefore, help you build better products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why you only need 5 users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some companies think that conducting user tests and usability studies must be very complex and costly. Or that user testing<\/a> requires project budgets and plenty of time scheduled at the end of a project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

(Source: nngroup.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a research study from 2000, Jakob Nielsen and Tom Landauer found that you only need 5 users to test your application in order to identify 75-99% of all usability problems.<\/p>\n\n\n

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You only need 3 to 5 users to identify the majority of usability issues.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After the fifth user, you are wasting your time by observing the same findings repeatedly but not learning much new.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To sum things up, you are able to identify most design issues, bugs, and user experience glitches of your website or application just by conducting 5 user tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set up your qualitative user test case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although you might feel that asking 5 users for feedback does not require that much of a preparation, we recommend following these steps to plan, set up, execute and analyze your user tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Find 3-5 users<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In a first step, you might wonder where you can find these promising 3 to 5 users, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look in the places where the kinds of people you’re looking for tend to congregate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

(source<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means: If your application aims to manage a Yoga teacher’s schedule, you probably should visit a couple of Yoga places in your city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re targeting an audience that might not be in the same location, you might find potential users and customers in different online communities, social networks or work groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Screen the most promising ones<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Once you’ve collected a couple of interested users for your user test, you should screen them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means: Have a brief conversation with them in order to identify a couple of parameters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n