User Research & Testing: The Antidote to Guesswork in Product Development

Creating a product without conducting any user research is equivalent to wandering through an unfamiliar city while wearing a blindfold. Even if you manage to make some progress, there will likely be instances where you take unnecessary detours, bump into buildings, or miss out on seeing something worthwhile due to misunderstanding where the real attractions lie. At KS Softech, we believe that the most costly component in the development of a product is not only what you think will happen (assumptions) but what you actually know will happen (evidence). Therefore, we use user research to eliminate assumptions by identifying the hidden pain points, the unmet needs, and the true usage patterns of your potential customers, which collectively determine whether your mobile app, web application, or software project will ultimately succeed or fail. Whether your business is a Software as a Service (SaaS) startup located in Bangalore, a Fintech company based in New Delhi, or an E-commerce company running out of Mumbai, our research acts like a compass directing the course of your new product’s features toward creating a better user experience and ultimately driving the economic growth of your business.

Strategic Discovery: Understanding the Human Behind the "User"

In order to solve a problem effectively, you need to understand it from a human perspective, not just a demographic one. Our primary research goes beyond demographic data. Via extensive interviews, contextual inquiries, and diary studies, we completely enter into your user’s world. Not only do we learn HOW your small business owner in Ahmedabad uses their accounting software, but we also learn WHY they use it in this particular manner, what their fears are regarding its usage, and what constitutes a ‘good day’ for that small business owner.

This empathetic understanding provides the foundation for all subsequent design/development work. It allows you to solve real problems, rather than merely add additional functionality.

Usability Testing: Watching Reality Unmask Your Design

A design can be logically perfect and a complete failure in practice. Usability testing is where theory meets reality. We put your live website, app, or interactive prototype in front of real target users. We give them realistic tasks: “Find and purchase a blue shirt,” “Apply for a personal loan,” “Generate last month’s sales report.” Then, we watch and listen. The silence of confusion, the muttered frustration, the triumphant click—these moments are pure data. We identify where your interface betrays the user, where workflows break down, and what causes abandonment. This isn’t criticism, it’s the most valuable feedback loop you can establish before a full-scale launch.

Competitive Benchmarking: Learning from the Landscape

Users do not use your product in isolation, they interact with other companies’ products daily, creating expectations shaped by the “best” experience available. We perform a systematic review of competing offerings and conduct heuristic assessments of the primary competing solutions and similar applications to better understand not only the feature set offered by these competing solutions, but also the complete user experience. By conducting these assessments, we identify common approaches, the “gaps” in service delivery, and areas where you can “stand apart from the competition.” This process provides a strategic competitive advantage, not through duplicating competitors’ products, but through understanding how to provide a better product to users in India.

Accessibility & Inclusive Design Testing

A product that excludes is a product that fails. We integrate accessibility testing into our research process, ensuring your digital experience is usable for people with diverse abilities. We check for screen reader compatibility, keyboard navigation, color contrast, and cognitive load. This isn’t just about compliance, it’s about ethics, market reach, and building a product that truly serves everyone, from a developer in Pune to a senior citizen in Kolkata accessing government services.

Quantitative & Qualitative: The Power of the "What" and the "Why"

Your marketing and sales solutions need to work closely together, not as separate entities. We link your website, application and/or lead form to your preferred CRM (ie: Salesforce, HubSpot or Zoho).

When prospects submit an inquiry via your website the system will automatically create a new CRM record (contact) and assign a score to that contact based on how valuable that individual is as a potential lead.

Once an opportunity has moved through your sales process and has resulted in a closed deal, that closed deal can trigger an automated sequence of onboarding emails sent via either Mailchimp® or SendGrid®.

This closed-loop marketing/sales system ensures that no leads are lost and that every interaction with a customer is informed and personalised. By working off a single source of truth (the CRM) your sales teams in Gurgaon are enabled to be efficient while your marketing teams in Pune receive the most accurate and timely marketing data to optimise their campaigns.

Synthesizing Chaos into Clear Action

Data is complicated in its own way. Synthesis is the key to bringing it all together. We take many hours of interviews, tons of notes, and piles of data like analytics and turn them into direct, usable actionable insights. The many artifacts (i.e., user personas, user journey maps, and prioritized usability reports) created during the synthesis phase help illustrate complex human behavior in an easily digested format. All members of your organization—from the highest levels in Mumbai to you, as a working developer in Hyderabad—will be empowered to use the synthesized products created through this process to direct future actions. We do not simply give you raw data, rather, we assist you in gaining both clarity and direction.

From Insights to Roadmap: Bridging Research to Execution

We work in partnership with our clients and provide workshops to develop ideas on how to turn the “pain points” identified by users during research, into a list of items to include within the product backlog. Based on how these pain points affect the user and provide business value, we rank features in order of priority. We also provide a continuing voice for the end user in the development process by collecting feedback from the end user after testing has taken place and ensuring that the information we collected continues to guide your decisions long into the future.

frequently asked questions

Because assumptions are expensive.
User research validates real needs, uncovers usability issues early, and prevents building features customers won’t use—saving months of development cost and reducing market failure risk.

We offer both:
  • User interviews & contextual inquiry
  • Usability testing (live websites, apps & prototypes)
  • A/B testing & analytics behavior analysis
  • Competitive benchmarking
  • Accessibility & inclusive design testing

All studies are tailored to your product goals.

Yes. We test:
  • Live products for optimization
  • Prototypes before development
  • MVPs before scale
  • Redesigns before relaunch

You can validate ideas at any stage.

You’ll receive:
  • Prioritized usability & UX improvement reports
  • User personas & journey maps
  • Feature recommendations
  • Conversion & engagement insights
  • Action-ready product roadmaps

Not raw data — clear direction.

Most studies take 2–4 weeks, depending on scope, number of users, and testing depth.

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Stop Building on Assumptions. Start Building on Evidence.

The riskiest part of any product launch is building something nobody wants. Mitigate that risk with the certainty that comes from truly knowing your user. Invest in research not as a cost, but as your most powerful product validation and innovation tool. Contact our user research team in Mumbai to begin a discovery that will transform your product’s trajectory.