--- title: "A Quick Checklist to Start Your Free Trial" canonical: "https://help.uxarmy.com/space/UT/83656705/A%20Quick%20Checklist%20to%20Start%20Your%20Free%20Trial" format: markdown --- *A step-by-step guide to launching your first usability test.* Starting your first UX research study can feel overwhelming. This checklist will help you quickly set up your first **UXArmy unmoderated usability test** and collect meaningful insights. Whether you're testing a **website, mobile app, or prototype**, follow these steps to get started. ##  Understand Your Free Plan Credits ![Screenshot 2026-03-18 at 3.05.34 PM.png](media://aed8779e-0719-4709-8e77-f0f8e96b5bc8) Before creating your first study, it's helpful to understand how **UXArmy credits work**. NOTE: Below limits apply if you use ALL your pooled credits on ANY ONE research method . If you choose a mix, then you can collect less than below for each research type. - **3 Unmoderated test responses (with recording)** - **15 Unmoderated responses (without recording)** - **1 User interview session** - **1500 survey responses** - **60 Card sorting responses** - **60 Tree testing responses** Credits can be used in **any combination within your limit**. This flexibility allows you to experiment with different UX research methods before upgrading. ## Create Your First Study To start your research: - Log into your UXArmy dashboard - Click **Create New Study** Select a research method such as: - Unmoderated Testing - User Interviews - Card Sorting - Tree Testing - Surveys For most first-time users, we recommend starting with **Unmoderated Testing**. This allows you to observe how users interact with your product while recording their screen and feedback. ## Unmoderated Usability Test Setup Checklist Whether you're running your first usability study or conducting regular UX research, this checklist will help you design tests that produce clear and actionable insights. ## **1. Define Your Research Goal** Before creating your test, clearly identify what you want to learn. A focused research goal helps you design meaningful tasks and questions. Think about the user journey you want to evaluate. Are users able to complete a specific task? Can they easily find important features? Is the navigation intuitive? Examples of research goals include: - Understanding whether users can locate a pricing page - Evaluating how easily users complete an onboarding flow - Testing whether a navigation structure is clear and intuitive Having a clear objective ensures your test stays focused and produces useful results. ## **2. Choose What You Want to Test** UXArmy allows you to test different types of products including prototypes, websites, and mobile applications. Before creating tasks, decide which environment best reflects the real experience you want participants to evaluate. For example, you might test a Figma prototype during early design stages, or a live website to understand how users interact with your current product. Make sure the Figma prototype link( visible to everyone), website URL, or mobile app installation link works correctly before launching the study. ## **3. Design Clear and Realistic Tasks** Tasks should represent real actions that users would normally perform. When writing tasks, describe the goal rather than the exact steps. This helps you understand how users naturally navigate through your interface. For example, instead of instructing users to click a specific menu, ask them to complete a realistic objective such as finding where to upgrade a plan or locating help documentation. Clear tasks allow participants to behave naturally and reveal usability issues more accurately. ## **4. Add Follow-Up Questions** Follow-up questions help you understand why users behaved the way they did. After completing a task, ask participants about their experience. Open-ended questions allow users to explain what they found confusing, what they expected to happen, or how easy the task felt. You can also collect structured feedback using rating scales or standardized measures like the **System Usability Scale (SUS)** to evaluate overall usability. These responses provide valuable context alongside recorded user behavior. ## **5. Capture User Behavior and Feedback** UXArmy allows you to observe how users interact with your product by recording their screens and capturing verbal feedback. Watching how participants navigate through a task often reveals usability problems that may not appear in written feedback alone. During the test, you can also define success criteria such as task completion time, navigation paths, or correct answers. These metrics help measure how effectively users complete each task. ## **6. Review and Prepare Your Test** Before launching your study, review your setup to ensure everything works as expected. Check that instructions are clear, links and prototypes load correctly, and questions are easy to understand. Running a preview test internally can help identify issues before sending the test to participants. Preparing the test carefully helps ensure you collect reliable and meaningful data. ## **7. Analyze Results and Identify Insights** Once responses start coming in, UXArmy provides tools to help you review and analyze participant behavior. You can watch screen recordings, listen to verbal feedback, and explore navigation paths to understand how users interacted with your product. Additional tools such as clips, annotations, navigation trees, and heatmaps help highlight key usability patterns and insights. These insights make it easier to identify friction points and opportunities for improvement. ## **8. Share Findings With Your Team** After analyzing your test results, share the key insights with your team to guide product decisions. UXArmy allows you to export clips, annotate important moments, and share findings with product managers, designers, or developers. Collaborating around real user feedback helps teams prioritize improvements and build better user experiences.