## User Simulation

Test with realistic personas before real users

UX Researcher

Simulates realistic user personas walking through your prototype, reporting friction points, confusion, and drop-off risks before you test with real people.

## How it works

1. **Define your personas**  
   Describe the user types you want to simulate — or let the agent generate relevant personas based on your product context.

2. **Run the simulation**  
   Each persona walks through your prototype independently, reacting to the experience from their perspective.

3. **Review the findings**  
   Get a report of friction points, confusion moments, and drop-off risks organized by persona and severity.

## Why use User Simulation

### Test before you test
Catch obvious friction points before investing in real user testing sessions.

### Multiple perspectives
See your design through the eyes of power users, first-timers, accessibility-focused users, and more.

### Specific friction points
Each persona reports exactly where they got confused, frustrated, or would have dropped off.

### Faster iteration cycles
Fix issues between simulation rounds instead of waiting weeks for the next user testing session.

## When to use User Simulation

### Pre-launch validation
You want to validate a new flow before launching it to real users.
Simulate 3 personas walking through our new upgrade flow: a power user, a free tier user who has never upgraded, and a non-technical user.

### Accessibility perspective
You want to understand how users with different abilities would experience your design.
Simulate a keyboard-only user and a screen reader user navigating our new settings page.

### Edge case discovery
You want to find edge cases by simulating users with unusual but realistic usage patterns.
Simulate a user managing 50+ projects in our dashboard. Where does the experience break down at scale?

## See User Simulation in action
See how User Simulation surfaces friction points before real users encounter them.