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Description

A technology-focused platform designed for consumer insights teams enables the mapping of insights across various media, digital, and shopper interactions, facilitating the creation of emotionally resonant customer experiences while optimizing the customer journey to enhance conversion rates. Additionally, it provides valuable insights into emotion, attention, engagement, and visibility. For UX teams, it offers a usability testing and analytics platform that evaluates attention, engagement, and emotional responses throughout user journeys, allowing for the testing of prototypes, mockups, websites, applications, and chatbots. This platform helps in pinpointing crucial UI elements that attract customer attention, ensuring the delivery of emotionally optimized user experiences that drive higher conversion rates. Furthermore, it leverages Emotion Insights to craft exceptional customer experiences, utilizing Facial Coding APIs to assess emotional responses at scale through single face emotion recognition, in-the-wild multi-face emotion recognition, and recorded video emotion analysis. The platform is capable of testing stimuli across diverse modes and channels such as videos, print advertisements, planograms, package designs, websites, applications, and chatbots, ensuring comprehensive insights into consumer behavior and emotional engagement. This multifaceted approach empowers brands to refine their strategies and create impactful interactions with their audience.

Description

Optimal is the go-to platform for modern product and design teams that need to scale user research and testing quickly, reliably, and without friction. Designed for speed and impact, Optimal combines intuitive, AI-powered tools with research best practices to help you uncover what users need and drive smarter decisions, faster. From product managers and designers to UX researchers and marketers, teams use Optimal to conduct card sorting, tree testing, first-click testing, surveys, and prototype validation – all in one seamless platform. No specialized research background required. AI-driven synthesis turns feedback into clear, actionable insights, while built-in participant recruitment and guided study flows accelerate everything from idea validation to UX optimization. Whether you're testing early concepts or refining live products, Optimal helps reduce risk and align teams with evidence. Trusted by leading global brands like Netflix, Apple, and Workday, Optimal scales across roles and departments while maintaining quality. It’s built to make it easier for everyone to uncover user needs and confidently shape digital experiences that work. Use Optimal to discover friction, validate ideas, improve accessibility, and make insight-driven decisions that move the business forward.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API No 

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Integrations

Cint No 
Figma No 
Lovable No 
PureSpectrum No 
Respondent No 
User Interviews No 

Integrations

Cint Yes 
Figma Yes 
Lovable Yes 
PureSpectrum Yes 
Respondent Yes 
User Interviews Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

$199/month
All plans:
- Unlimited seats
- Unlimited participant responses per study
- All tools and study types included
Free Trial Yes 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs No 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Affect Lab

Founded

2016

Country

India

Website

affectlab.io

Vendor Details

Company Name

Optimal

Founded

2007

Country

New Zealand

Website

www.optimalworkshop.com

Product Features

Emotion Recognition

Facial Emotions No 
Facial Expression Analysis No 
Machine Learning No 
Photo Emotions No 
Speech Emotions No 
Video Emotions No 
Written Text Emotions No 

Usability Testing

A/B Testing No 
Annotations No 
Audience Targeting No 
Heatmaps No 
Impression Testing No 
Mobile Testing No 
Moderated Usability Testing No 
Prototype Testing No 
Quantitative Metrics No 
Remote User Testing No 
Reporting / Analytics No 
Surveys and Feeback No 
Video Recording / Transcription No 

Product Features

Heatmap

Behavioral Mapping No 
Dashboard No 
Dynamic Maps No 
Element Analytics No 
Embeddable Maps No 
For Sales No 
For Science No 
Radial Mapping No 
Territorial Mapping No 
Website Analytics No 

Usability Testing

A/B Testing Yes 
Annotations No 
Audience Targeting Yes 
Heatmaps Yes 
Impression Testing No 
Mobile Testing No 
Moderated Usability Testing No 
Prototype Testing Yes 
Quantitative Metrics Yes 
Remote User Testing Yes 
Reporting / Analytics Yes 
Surveys and Feeback Yes 
Video Recording / Transcription Yes 

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