Export usability test data
If you want to share data from your study outside of Dscout, you have several options to export it. You can export study responses, customize crosstab analysis, and more.
Tip: To export individual session recordings in their entirety, see View usability test session recordings.
To export data from a usability test:
Navigate to the Responses tab of your study.
Click the Export mission data button in the top right corner. The export modal is displayed.
Choose what you want to export. For more information, see the sections below.
Click Download selected. A progress modal is displayed.
When prompted, click Download in the progress modal to complete your export.
Refer to the sections below for information on what options are available on each tab of the export modal.
Basic
From the Basic tab of the export modal, you can download full participant responses (.csv files), session recordings (.mp4 files), and more. Here, make a selection and click Download selected to complete your export. When prompted, click Download in the progress modal.
Here’s a breakdown of each option:
Entry data (.csv)
Download a spreadsheet that includes:
Participant information.
Study questions and responses.
Screener questions and responses (if applicable).
Number of clicks on task questions (if applicable).
Time on task questions (if applicable).
AI themes (if generated prior to export).
Note: Participant emails are only included for studies in which you invited your own participants. They are not included for participants recruited from Dscout's available panels.
AI summaries (.csv)
Download a spreadsheet that includes your study’s open-ended, talk out loud, and task questions as well as their AI summaries.
Note: AI summaries must be generated for your study before you can export them. For more information, see AI summaries.
Clicks (.csv)
Download a spreadsheet that includes all click data collected as part of your study, including elements clicked, navigation between URLs and Figma frames, and more.
Entry notes (.csv)
Download a spreadsheet that includes all researcher-entered notes on participant entries.
Task data (.csv)
Download a spreadsheet that includes metrics collected as part of task questions in your study, including time on task, number of clicks, and more. For more information, see Task questions.
Chart data (.zip)
Download a .zip file containing every chart from your study in .png format. These are the charts you see when viewing responses by question in your study. For example, multiple choice questions and their associated bar charts.
Full session recordings (.zip)
Download a .zip file containing .mp4 videos of each participant’s entire session recording.
Transcripts (.zip)
Download a .zip file containing .csv files of each participant’s session transcript. Questions are divided into rows for easy identification.
Mission stimuli (.zip)
Download a .zip file containing all stimuli provided to participants throughout the study. This export does not include any data from participant responses. It only includes the stimuli you added to questions when designing your study.
Print/PDF
On the Print/PDF tab of the export modal, you can customize a PDF version of your data to export. Here, select how you want your PDF to be formatted and click Download select to export your PDF. When prompted, click Download in the progress modal.
Here’s a breakdown of each option:
Layout
Determines how many responses appear on a given page of your exported PDF. By default, PDFs include one response per page.
Sorting
Determines the order in which responses are sorted in your exported PDF. Select from the following options:
Participants: Sorts responses in alphabetical order based on participant first names.
Newest to oldest: Sorts responses in the order they were received, with newest responses first.
Oldest to newest: Sorts responses in the order they were received, with oldest responses first.
Included data
Determines which data from each response is included in your exported PDF. Select from the following options:
Participant name and profile picture.
Entry responses.
Researcher notes and highlights.
Extended participant demographics.
Tags.
Crosstab
Cross tab analysis can be useful if you want to understand the relationship between two factors in your study. For example, maybe you want to see how many people of a certain age gave a particular answer to a question. Or maybe you want to see how many people in a certain state responded a certain way. You can do that with a crosstab export.
On the Crosstab tab of the export modal, make your selections and click Download selected to export your crosstab as a .csv file. When prompted, click Download in the progress modal.
Here’s a breakdown of each option:
Tip: For best results, choose a piece of study data (Answers or Tags) to display in either your rows or columns and a piece of participant data (Participants or below in the provided list) in the other. This gives you a known constant about your participants and a variable from your study to compare it to.
Answers
Displays every possible answer to your study questions.
Tags
Displays all researcher-created tags in your study. This option also includes AI notable moments (usability tests only) and AI themes if generated for your study.
Note: Tags are counted once per participant. For example, if you tag two questions from the same participant with Tag A, that participant will still only be counted once when generating your crosstab.
Participants
Displays each study participant’s name.
Group
Displays each researcher-created participant group, counting the number of participants who are part of each group as it relates to your other selection(s).
Days
Displays the days of the week, counting the number of participants who completed their response on each day as it relates to your other selection(s).
Times
Displays each hour of the day, counting the number of participants who completed their response within each hour as it relates to your other selection(s).
Age
Displays ages 13 and up, counting the number of participants who fall into each group as it relates to your other selection(s).
Gender
Displays the following options, counting the number of participants who fall into each group as it relates to your other selection(s):
Prefer not to say.
Prefer to self-identify.
Non-binary.
Man.
Woman.
N/A.
Home city
Displays the home cities provided by participants across your study, counting the number of participants who reside in each as it relates to your other selection(s).
Home country
Displays the home countries provided by participants across your study, counting the number of participants who reside in each as it relates to your other selection(s).
Demographics
Displays other demographics, like education level, employment status, and more, counting the number of participants who each applies to as it relates to your other selection(s).
Tags
On the Tags tab of the export modal, you can download your data using a structure based on any tags you’ve added throughout your study responses. You can download count data for each tag, tagged responses themselves, and more. Here, make a selection and click Download selected to complete your export. When prompted, click Download in the progress modal.
Here’s a breakdown of each option:
Tag counts (.csv)
Download a .csv file that includes a list of every tag in your study as well as the number of responses, participants, and entries it’s applied to.
Tagged responses (.csv)
Download a .csv file that includes all responses that have been given a tag in your study.
Tag groups and tags (.csv)
Download a .csv file that includes a list of all tags in your study as well as the tag group they’ve been added to. Tags without tag groups will be labeled Ungrouped.
Past exports
On the Past exports tab of the export modal, you can view a history of previous exports that have been completed in your study. This is useful if you want to quickly re-download a file you’ve downloaded in the past or if you want to see what data your collaborators have exported. To download a past export, click the download icon beside it on the list.
Note: Past exports are only kept for two weeks after their original export date. If an export occurred more than two weeks ago, you’ll have to configure it again using the settings described above.