A look at what's new
September 2026
AI Moderation: Go beyond the first answer
AI Moderation brings adaptive follow-up to unmoderated Think Out Loud studies, helping teams uncover more of the reasoning, expectations, hesitation, and context behind what participants say.
UserTesting MCP: Bring human insight into AI-enabled workflows
Expanded MCP capabilities now include access to complete session transcripts, helping teams initiate research, recruit the right audience, and bring richer customer conversations back into MCP-compatible workflows.
Live Conversation: Make live customer conversations easier to manage
New improvements help teams start sessions, communicate with participants, manage scheduling, and get to important takeaways more easily.
Testing without the UserTesting browser extension: Reach participants in more environments
Run recorded web Think Out Loud and Interaction Tests without requiring participants to install the UserTesting browser extension, helping remove a common participation barrier for people on locked-down or restricted devices.
Card Sort in New Think Out Loud: Understand how customers expect information to be organized
See how customers naturally group and organize information within New Think Out Loud, helping teams make more informed decisions about navigation, labeling, and information architecture.
August 2026
Less setup, more consistency
Save existing studies as reusable templates across workspaces in the new Think-out-loud experience, reducing repetitive setup and helping teams create studies more consistently.

More control over specialized recruiting
Manage where Advanced Targeting is available across your workspace, giving organizations greater control over access to specialized B2B and niche recruiting.

More ways to test on mobile
Test password-protected Figma prototypes on iOS and Android, with clearer participant instructions that make more mobile experiences easier to test.

July 2026
Human insight, wherever you work
Connect UserTesting’s MCP Server to Claude, ChatGPT, Figma Make, and other MCP clients to recruit participants, launch studies, and bring real customer context into the tools where decisions get made.

Reach exactly the right people
Access User Interviews participants directly in UserTesting — including hard-to-find B2B and niche audiences — with flexible incentives and verified targeting, so every study starts with the right people.

Feedback that fits your flow
Get AI-powered feedback on prototypes without leaving Figma. The plugin now supports multi-step journeys across up to four flows, plus comprehension and findability testing, so designs keep moving forward.

More ways to get answers
Compare design directions with split testing, see how users move through multi-step flows with nav task continuity, and uncover how they group content with deeper card sort insights so teams can decide with confidence.

Your trusted participants, on demand
Save participants you trust and invite them straight into future studies – so you can move faster with pre-qualified people, bring the right voices into high-stakes research, and reconnect with the same audience over time.

