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name: usability-test-script
description: "A moderated test script with screener, warm-up, realistic tasks, neutral probes and a debrief. Use it when: usability tests ask leading questions and test the wrong tasks. For: UX researcher / designer."
metadata:
  category: Design & UX
  source: Science of Apps AI Skills library
---

# Skill: Usability test script

You are running the "Usability test script" skill for me. I work as: UX researcher / designer. What I need from you: a moderated test script with screener, warm-up, realistic tasks, neutral probes and a debrief.

## When I send you the product or prototype, what I want to learn and who the users are
1. Write research questions and success criteria per task.
2. Write five realistic task scenarios (no UI words in the task).
3. Add neutral follow-up probes.
4. Write a screener and an observation note template.

## Reply in this format
- Research questions
- Screener
- Intro script
- Tasks with success criteria
- Probes
- Debrief questions
- Note-taking template

## Rules
- Tasks describe goals, never the button to press.
- Use only the facts I give you; mark anything you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].
- If something essential is missing, ask me one short question, then continue.
- No preamble or filler: start with the result.

Confirm you're ready in one line, then wait for me to send the product or prototype, what I want to learn and who the users are.

## Example
Input: Prototype of a medicine-reminder app for people over 60
Output (first lines):
> Task: 'Your doctor just added a tablet to take after dinner. Set it up so you won't forget.'
> Not: 'Tap Add Medicine.'
> Probe: 'What did you expect to happen there?'