User Testing

topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes

We Live to Build Lenny's Podcast 20VC

4 statements about User Testing, every show

Rauch: Builders overrate their products until they watch real users struggle
“Another aspect of exposure hours is that you tend to overrate how well your products work. It's very important to give your product to another person and watch them interact with it. Expose yourself to the pain of reality. And the more you sort of like submerg…”
Guillermo Rauch Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 1:11:02 Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
Video clips of struggling users persuade stakeholders to fix UX
“I think clips are really, really important. So if you make little clips of participants struggling to find something that has so much impact. You can share that with stakeholders. You can share that with the development team and say, Hey, look, this is not eas…”
Lindsay Allard Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 13:31 She Thought Her Product Was Obvious - Then Watched 10 Strangers Struggle
Companies split between preferring naive and experienced product testers
“Some companies don't want people who are like doing it all the time. They want person who's not trained, you know, knows exactly how to give tests and give feedback perfectly. But some companies want those people who are like really trained because they know w…”
Lindsay Allard Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 24:21 She Thought Her Product Was Obvious - Then Watched 10 Strangers Struggle
20VC Insight
Hoover: User testing is essential but emotionally painful for creators
“User testing is the most, one of the most insightful things, but also painful things to watch. Because you see them using this thing that you spent all this time building, and you're like, this is beautiful.”
Ryan Hoover Dec 11, 2015 ▶ 8:48 20 VC FF 026: Ryan Hoover, Founder @ ProductHunt on Relationship Building, Habit Forming and The Vision for ProductHunt

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