Bolt
Case Study

From manual iteration testing to a continuous UX intelligence programme

Scale usability insight across app pages without stop-start cycles

Finance case study

Challenge

Usability testing was conducted manually for each iteration, making the process time-consuming, difficult to scale across multiple app pages, and a significant barrier to speed-to-market.

At the same time, the team needed deeper, more actionable insights than manual testing could provide.

What We Did

Always-on usability programme running continuously across the year, eliminating the stop-start of manual testing cycles.

Continuous testing of app pages and prototypes with approximately 30 users per study, across different target audiences.

Every session combined with screen recordings, sentiment and emotion analysis, and topic analysis for richer, layered insight.

Key Insights

Identified critical friction points across user journeys that manual testing had consistently missed.

Revealed significant gaps between what users say and what they actually do, only visible through behavioral recording.

Enabled deeper understanding of emotional context behind user behavior at each touchpoint.

Business Outcomes

Significantly reduced research time per iteration, accelerating product development cycles.

Delivered richer, more actionable insights directly into product, UX, and marketing teams.

Improved end-to-end customer journey optimization across the app.