usability-testing

usability-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from memi-design/design-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,546 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for testing whether people can use a product or prototype to complete specific tasks. It covers planning, test formats, observation, analysis, and summarising findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan moderated or remote usability tests, write task scenarios, compare design versions, and turn observations into design decisions.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague opinions with evidence about where users hesitate, make mistakes, or need help.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan moderated or remote usability tests, write task scenarios, compare design versions, and turn observations into design decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/memi-design/design-skills/usability-testing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add memi-design/design-skills --skill usability-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/memi-design/design-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,546 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.02546
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01018
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00255

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 31622277521d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usability-testing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/usability-testing/SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Usability Testing -- Research Skill Pack

Structured methodology for planning, executing, and analyzing usability tests. Integrates with the Memoire research pipeline to transform raw observations into actionable design decisions.


Test Planning Methodology

1. Define Research Questions

Every test starts with 3-5 focused research questions. Format:

RQ1: Can users complete [task] without assistance?
RQ2: Where do users hesitate or make errors during [flow]?
RQ3: How does [new pattern] compare to [existing pattern] in efficiency?

2. Choose Test Type

Method Best For Participants Duration
Moderated in-person Complex flows, emotional reactions 5-8 45-60 min
Moderated remote Geographic diversity, screen sharing 5-8 30-45 min
Unmoderated remote High volume, simple tasks 15-30 10-20 min
Guerrilla Quick validation, low-fidelity prototypes 5-10 5-15 min
A/B comparison Comparing two design variants 10-20 per variant 15-30 min

3. Determine Fidelity

Fidelity Tool When to Use
Paper / wireframe Sketches, Balsamiq Early concept validation
Mid-fidelity Figma prototype (no animation) Flow and IA validation
High-fidelity Figma prototype (full interactions) Visual design and micro-interaction testing
Production Staged deployment Pre-launch validation

Task Scenario Design

Anatomy of a Good Task

Context:  You are shopping for a birthday gift for a friend.
Trigger:  You want to find a book under $30 and add it to your cart.
Goal:     Complete the purchase using the saved payment method.

Rules

  1. Write scenarios, not instructions. Say "Find a book under $30" not "Click the search bar, type books, click filter."
  2. Avoid leading language. Do not mention UI elements by name.
  3. Include realistic context. Why is the user doing this?
  4. Define clear completion criteria. What state means success?
  5. Order tasks from simple to complex. Build confidence before testing harder flows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 319 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 31622277521d

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usability-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository memi-design/design-skills (7 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,546 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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