Evelance Blog

10 Tips for Customer Interviews for 2026

A good customer interview feels like a conversation where the other person does most of the talking...

Are Surveys Qualitative or Quantitative?

People ask this question all the time, and the honest answer is that it depends on how you build the...

Qualitative vs Quantitative User Research: Making a Choice

Product teams make decisions worth six- and seven-figure sums every week. A site relaunch, a new...

8 Mistakes to Avoid During Customer Interviews

Customer interviews sit at the center of good product work. They tell you what surveys cannot. They...

JTBD Framework & Template to Get Started

Most product teams build features that nobody asked for. They spend months refining something they...

The 7 Best UX Design Agencies in Canada

Finding a UX design agency that fits your project feels like hiring for a role you cannot fully...

How to Create a Synthetic User with Gemini

Many people turn to language models, hoping they can play the part of their users. People do so to...

How to Create a Synthetic User with Claude

You need feedback on your product, your copy, or your onboarding flow. You could recruit testers...

How to Create a Synthetic User with ChatGPT

You want to know what your customers think before you build something for them. That makes sense...

How Evelance Personas Are Created

Teams often ask how Evelance personas are created and why their responses remain consistent across...

Evelance Surpasses 2 Million Personas

When teams evaluate a product decision, the hardest part is not generating ideas. It is deciding...

10 Ways to Reduce Maze User Research Costs with Evelance

User research budgets have a way of disappearing faster than anyone expects. You set aside what...

Evelance Feature Release: Custom Presets

We kept hearing the same thing from users. The audience targeting works great, but having to rebuild...

The 10 Best Alternatives to Useberry

Product managers know the feeling well. A sprint deadline approaches, stakeholders grow restless...

10 UX Research Methods to Understand Your Users

Most product teams know they need to talk to users. Fewer know which method to use, when to use it...

10 Best Practices for Recruiting Virtual Focus Groups

Focus group recruitment fails more often than most researchers admit. Participants drop out at the...

The 10 Best Dovetail Alternatives & Competitors

User research teams often spend more time managing their tools than using the insights those tools...

What is Product Messaging & How to Test it With Evelance

Research from the Marketing Research Association shows that only 40% of newly developed products...

9 Best Alternatives to Dscout for User Research

User research has a timing problem. You need answers before your sprint ends, but traditional...

The Psychology Behind Pricing Tiers That Sell

Most pricing decisions happen in a meeting room where someone says, “Let’s do three...

How to Run Great Usability Testing on a $0 Budget

Most teams believe good user research costs money. They picture labs with one-way mirrors, expensive...

Fake Door Testing: The Complete Guide

Most product ideas fail. Research suggests up to 90% of new features and products miss the mark with...

15 Stakeholder Interview Questions That Unlock Real Insights

Most stakeholder interviews fail before they start. The problem sits in the questions themselves...

9 Mobile UX Mistakes You’re Probably Making Right Now

Someone opened your app, added something to their cart, and then left. You lost that sale, and you...

How to Validate Product Ideas Without Building Anything

9 out of 10 startups fail. That number sounds dramatic because it is. But here is the part that...

How to Write a Research Brief in 30 Minutes or Less

Most research briefs take far longer to write than they should. Teams spend hours drafting...

The 7 Best Platforms for Competitive Testing

You have a design ready. Your stakeholder wants to know how it stacks up against what your...

Evelance Predicted Real Users with 89.78% Accuracy

We ran a test to see if Evelance could predict what real product managers think about a product...

Public Sharing & Link Expiration for Evelance Reports

Evelance reports now support sharing controls that give you flexibility over who sees your results...

Landing Page Psychology: What Makes Visitors Stay or Bounce

Your landing page has about 50 milliseconds to make its case. That is 0.05 seconds. In that blink of...

When User Feedback Misleads You: What to Watch Out For

Product teams love feedback. They collect it through surveys, interviews, support tickets, and...

9 Best Askable Alternatives for User Research

Research teams know the frustration. You have a design ready for validation, stakeholders asking...

How to Test Your Meta Ad Before Spending a Dollar

You have a campaign ready to go. The creative looks good to you, the copy feels right, and your team...

11 Best AI Platforms for Product Marketing Managers

You have a page that needs to go live next week. Your team spent three weeks on the copy, the design...

9 Best AI Platforms for CRO Specialists

Most conversion rate optimization work happens in spreadsheets, heatmaps, and hypothesis documents...

6 Ways to Test Your Pricing Model with Evelance

You built a pricing page. You ran some numbers. You looked at what competitors charge. Maybe you...

15 Best AI Platforms for Bootstrapped Founders

Every dollar you spend as a bootstrapped founder comes with a question attached: will this move the...

13 PickFu Alternatives to Consider

Product teams spend weeks waiting for research results that arrive too late to matter. By the time...

The 9 Best AI Platforms for Marketing Agencies

The gap between what marketers think will work and what actually resonates has narrowed considerably...

5 Best AI Tools for Product Managers

According to BCG research, companies achieve $3.70 in returns for every dollar spent on AI tools...

7 Ways to Test Mobile Apps with Hard-to-Reach Audiences

Mobile app testing becomes complex when your target users include people with disabilities...

How to Write Product Requirements That Developers Don’t Ignore

The gap between what product managers write and what developers actually build costs companies real...

The 5 Best Alternatives to Hotjar

Companies track user behavior on their websites for good reason. When you see how visitors move...

7 Ways Evelance Helps to Reduce Lyssna User Testing Costs

User testing costs through platforms like Lyssna can drain budgets faster than most teams realize...

5 Ways to Reduce Maze User Testing Costs with Evelance

User testing platforms have become essential tools for product teams, but their costs can accumulate...

6 Brands That Need Rebranding

Peloton’s stock price crashed from its pandemic peak. X lost half its advertising revenue...

Is Product Management a Dying Career or Just Changing Shape?

Your product management career won’t disappear tomorrow, but the job you’re doing now...

Software Release Plan Template: A Practical Guide for PMs

Most product managers inherit release processes that grew organically over time. Teams add steps...

Release Planning Template: Keeping Product Launches on Track

Product launches fail for predictable reasons. Teams work in silos. Priorities change without...

The Only PRD Template You’ll Ever Need for Clear Product Specs

The product meeting ends, everyone agrees on what to build, and three weeks later, your engineering...

How to Conduct a Product-Market Fit Analysis with Evelance

Product market fit determines if your solution addresses a market need that customers find...

7 Ways to Get User Feedback on Prototypes Without a Budget

Product teams face a common problem when developing new features or products. They need user...

How to Conduct a Competitive Product Analysis with Evelance

Product teams need to know where they stand against competitors. You can spend weeks collecting...

5 Affordable User Feedback Platforms Under $500

Product teams waste months validating concepts that users reject at launch. Affordable feedback...

10 Lyssna Alternatives for User Testing in 2025

User testing shouldn’t keep your team waiting weeks for answers. Lyssna delivers reliable...

An Inside Look at Evelance’s Deep Behavioral Attribution

User feedback tells you what happened. Attribution tells you why it happened and what to do about...

Predictive User Research vs Synthetic Users

Product teams hear that AI can simulate users. Both predictive user research and synthetic users use...

The 60/30/10 Rule in UX & Visual Hierarchy

The 60/30/10 rule is all about controlling where users look first, second, and third on your...

The 5 Planes of UX & How They Work Together

Jesse James Garrett’s framework of five planes shows that successful design begins long before...

The 3 Second Rule in UX and First Impressions

Research from Google shows users form opinions in 17 milliseconds. That’s faster than you can...

Pareto Principle: The 80/20 Rule in UX Design & Its True Impact

Most designers waste time perfecting features nobody uses. You’ve probably spent weeks...

Jakob’s Law & The Power of Familiar UX Design

Jakob’s Law states that people spend most of their time using products other than yours. This...

Miller’s Law in UX and the Limits of Memory

Most designers cite George Miller’s famous 1956 paper about seven plus or minus two items and...

The 4 C’s of UX Design & What They Represent

Most designers think user experience design follows artistic intuition rather than structured...

The 4 Stages of UX Research & Their Purpose

Most people think UX research follows a straight line from problem to solution. They’re wrong...

Why Users Show Interest But Don’t Convert

Most people assume that interested customers will buy. The data tells a different story. Four out of...

Credibility Assessment: What Kills Trust On Product Pages

Credibility on a product page is a fast judgment built from small signals that stack. People form a...

Interest Activation: Make the First 3 Seconds Count

People decide whether to keep looking almost immediately. In the space of a blink, the brain forms...

Understanding Evelance’s 12 Psychological Scores That Predict User Behavior

Evelance models behavior using twelve interpretable scores: Interest, Relevance, Credibility, Value...

How to Become a UX Design Consultant

Most people think UX consultants need decades of agency experience before going solo. Actually, the...

What is Lean UX: The Agile Design Method

Most product teams believe Lean UX means shipping fast and fixing problems later. This misconception...

Inside Evelance’s Emotional Intelligence Capability

Most user testing and research platforms treat users as static entities with fixed preferences. A...

25 Facts About User Experience You Cannot Ignore

Most businesses think user experience improvements cost too much money. They’re wrong...

20+ UX Research Questions to Ask for Building a Product

Product teams often start building before they fully understand what users actually need. They...

10 Best Practices for eCommerce Usability

Product teams pour weeks into building online stores that fail to convert visitors. The disconnect...

The 5 Best User Research Platforms for Startups

Product teams at startups face a specific problem that larger companies rarely discuss. You need...

The 5 Best User Research Platforms for Product Teams

Product teams face a recurring problem that costs millions in development resources. They build...

User Acceptance Testing: How to Perform UAT with Examples

Product teams release software that users abandon within weeks. Development cycles stretch for...

How to Validate Personas Before You Recruit a Single User

Product teams spend thousands of dollars and several weeks recruiting users for research that could...

10 Ways Evelance Augments User Research

Product teams face a familiar problem: validation cycles that stretch for weeks while development...