How Testmate ensured their own website showcased their promise to clients.
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Testmate
Customer since
2014
No. of BugHerd projects
20+
No. of bugs created
36K+
No. of team members (+guests) using BugHerd
60+
Customer since
2014
No. of BugHerd projects
20+
No. of bugs created
36K+
No. of team members (+guests) using BugHerd
60+
3 years after launching Salt & Fuessel, one of Melbourne’s leading digital performance agencies, co-founder Richard Fuessel developed a new passion. User testing.
On discovering just how much user testing helped in developing websites, he set about creating Testmate, Australia’s largest UX Research Agency that specialises in managing end-to-end user testing. Why? To get the best possible outcomes for clients and ensure the client websites were performing to their peak.
What makes Testmate special?
“Testmate”, according to Richard, “are truth seekers, determined to help answer the ‘why’ behind client data.”
Everyone at Testmate is driven to be the best at focussing on the details that actually matter to their clients. All clients want to be certain that the changes they make to their website will bring the results they desire.
Testmate are experts in simplifying complex data to provide clear, actionable recommendations for every client they work with. Their client list is impressive, having worked with the likes of Telstra, Mitsubishi, Medibank, Services Australia and Woolworths.
Quality, expert User testing by people just like your target audience
Testmate base their work on a simple and super elegant concept - get people who match your target audience to test your website.
Tens of thousands of testers are available from their database and ready to help. The secret sauce - they’re everyday Australians, just like those you want visiting your website or purchasing your products.
Looking for moderated user testing, user interviews, benchmarking or mental model research? TestMate can help. With their sophisticated recruitment process they can match testers to the ideal profile for their clients.
So, if your website target audience is men who love fishing, then you’d want to make sure Colin, a bricklayer with a passion for fishing, is included in user testing your site. This testing allows their UX researchers to see where Colin might find your site confusing, or where best to situate the important information you need visitors to see quickly.
Colin, Bricklayer from Laverton
As Richard notes, “To get better experiences for clients you need to build trust. For Testmate that trust is built by providing a superior, personalised service through the use of real Australian users.”
With over 10,000 user tests conducted, you can be sure they know what they’re doing.
"What BugHerd offers is the peace of mind that everything has been centrally tracked. Whether it’s a major bug or a new idea, we can quickly get it in the system and then we know it won’t get lost."
How Testmate made sure their own website reflected their promise to clients.
If your client promise is to increase website performance, you need to make sure you reflect this when you redesign your own website.
There’s very little leniency from clients if your website isn’t top notch.
While rebuilding the Testmate website, the team found themselves looking for a way to track issues and streamline the process for managing and discussing issues, particularly removing any obstacles for the developers. We needed something with “easy communications, so that developers can put any questions they have around tasks directly into the system.”
*Spoiler Alert* the solution they were seeking was NOT tracking changes in a Word document by cutting and pasting screenshots.
For Richard, using BugHerd previously made it an obvious choice for the Testmate website rebuild. “We’ve found it to be super intuitive and easy and so effective that there was no need for us to shop around.
What BugHerd offers is the peace of mind that everything has been centrally tracked. Whether it’s a major bug or a new idea, we can quickly get it in the system and then we know it won’t get lost.”
Being able to group tasks together has really helped plan future releases, but according to Richard, “What I love is the simplicity of logging issues. It’s almost fun.” Almost?
With a rebuilt website that showcases what they can help clients achieve, what’s next for TestMate?
There’s definitely a few plans in the works. “First, we are launching our website into the US, UK and NZ markets at the start of 2023. After that, we’re aiming to be the leading UX Research company globally.”
Great news if you are USA based, you can now access superior user testing from everyday Americans with the help of Testmate.
From us at BugHerd, we wish you all the best, and are so excited to be a part of your future journey!
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Studio Moso is a digital agency based in Melbourne, Australia with a clientele that ranges from large scale banks to local glass manufacturers. The agency provides digital web services, including user experience, web design & development and UX design.
While managing projects involving external and internal stakeholders the team at Studio Moso needed to find a website feedback solution that provided an infrastructure to not only support their internal feedback needs, but that could also loop in external stakeholders.
Ultimately the product selection needed to minimize the number of email and document exchanges, thus save precious team member time and in turn reduce project budgets.
"The team at Studio Moso needed to find a feedback solution that not only supported their internal feedback needs, but could also loop in external stakeholders."
How Studio Moso uses BugHerd
Every staff member at Studio Moso uses BugHerd on an almost daily basis. In fact, the Studio Moso team is one of the earliest adopters of BugHerd (2012). Today they are using the tool as a part of their studio feedback infrastructure.
“We use a combination of software in our studio when managing projects: Bugherd (of course), Trello, Slack, Jira & Team Gantt all play an important role in our studio infrastructure.”
Karlie Senior Account Manager
Studio Moso mainly uses BugHerd with new clients, before launching the final website, feature or campaign. They do occasionally use the tool on a live site to mark up changes as required.
How Studio Moso uses BugHerd
After finishing the internal QA process of the new site, the Studio Moso team provides client access to BugHerd. The clients mainly use Chrome capture screenshots to pin issues and feedback, creating tasks for the team to action.
With the help of the upload documentation function, the feedback loop can get started and bingo! The tasks are sent back to the QA manager at the studio.
Once all the tasks have been collected from the client, the studio account manager will jump in and validate the tasks by replicating them. Once completed, the content of the tasks will be modified for the developer or the account manager to take over the ticket to be resolved.
Once the requested tasks have been completed, the tasks gets dragged and dropped to the DONE column on the Kanban board. In the tasks final review stage, the client gets the tasks assigned to them for one final review for them to be closed off.
The whole process usually takes under 2 weeks, for multiple rounds of feedback and communication. Imagine doing that all over email… shudder.
"BugHerd is a software we write into all our proposals and our clients love it just as much (sometimes more) than we do."
What Studio Moso loves about BugHerd
It’s really hard for us to remember a time prior to BugHerd! We have on a few occasions not provided a client with BH access and it’s been a slew of documents + emails with changes - enough to know that it’s saving us time (and money) by providing client access to it!
