Value Centric UX for Startups: Remote Usability Testing Workshop

NOTE: This workshop is intended for founder teams that already have an idea they are working on. As you will work in groups on your ideas, please join the workshop with at least two members of your team.

t is also possible to participate in this workshop with your own products, even without attending the first two workshops.

2025/2026

29.10.2025: Human and Value Centered Design Workshop (1/3), 10 am – 2 pm
13.11.2025: Click Dummy Prototyping Workshop (with Figma) (2/3), 10 am – 2 pm
28.01.2026: Remote Usability Testing Workshop (3/3), 10 am – 2 pm

2026

15.04.2026: Human and Value Centered Design Workshop (1/3), 10 am – 2 pm
13.05.2026: Click Dummy Prototyping Workshop (with Figma) (2/3), 10 am – 2 pm

→ Subsequent individual consultations can be booked free of charge upon request.

How can you minimize interaction issues and maximize usability? Conduct a usability test!

NOTE: This is part three of a three-part consecutive workshop series. To fully benefit from the process, teams are encouraged to participate in all three workshops. Each session builds upon the previous one, guiding you from understanding user needs, through prototyping, to usability testing. This workshop is intended for founder teams that already have a product idea they are actively working on.

We encourage startups to apply the iterative Human-Centered Design Process and learn how to conduct usability tests to incorporate feedback loops. This helps them optimize navigation, check if the system is in line with the European AI Act, and determine what improvements could be made to respect the European accessibility standards.

This approach enables teams to quickly develop and refine products based on real user input, significantly increasing their chances of success in the market. Therefore, in this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create and run a remote usability test using the click dummy created in the previous course, and how to formulate the right questions to optimize your products in a human- and value-centered manner.

1.     Define the research objective and test questions

2.     Create test-tasks

3.     Prepare the participant

4.     Conduct a remote test using zoom

5.     Report and analyze the data

It is also possible to participate in this workshop with your own products, even without attending the first two workshops.

→ Subsequent individual consultations can be booked free of charge upon request.

Coach: Veronica Hoth is a designer with over ten years of practical experience, specializing in user experience and human-centered design. She is a research associate at Chemnitz University of Technology and a doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Berlin. Her areas of focus are in user experience and human-centered design. She researches design ethics to integrate value-oriented design into the human-centered design process for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Startups. Her focus is on considering privacy and diversity in the design of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction). Since May 2023, she has been responsible for the conception and implementation of workshops, publications, and lectures on value-oriented digitalization and design in the area of fairness and diversity within the project “Mittelstand Digital Zentrum – Fokus Mensch.” https://www.digitalzentrum-fokus-mensch.de/themen/fairness-und-diversitaet/veronica-hoth

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