Study template: tree test
Can people find it in your navigation?
Test whether people can find things in your navigation, using a text-only structure.Paste your URL and Fiuto builds this tree test around your navigation, free, in minutes. Every label in the tree is yours to change before launch.
A preview player for the tree test template. It steps through the 4 blocks a respondent meets, resting on the tree test.
How it works
Fiuto runs your full research loop
Paste a URL and Fiuto takes it from there. No research experience needed.
What you will learn
4 blocks, about 5 minutes to answer.
- Whether people can find a target in your navigation structure
- How directly they get there, or where they backtrack
- Which labels send them down the wrong path
The study, block by block
In the order a respondent meets them. Every prompt is rewritten around your product when you paste the URL.
Intake form
A few details before the study starts.
your name, email, your role
Instruction
Find your way
On the next screen you'll see a navigation structure. Click through it to where you'd expect to find the answer. There's no search, and no right or wrong, we just want to see where you'd look.
Tree test
Where would you go to update your billing address?
One right path through the tree, timed
Open text
Was anything hard to find or labelled confusingly?
Optional
Who it is for
For a designer, product manager, or content lead with a navigation to check: a menu, a settings tree, a help centre. It suits a structure that exists or is drafted, tested without the design, so the labels have to carry it alone.
If the structure is still open and you want people to propose it, the card sort comes first. If the doubt is about where a button sits on a screen, the navigation test looks at the screen.
Make it yours
Each method in this study has its own guide: what it measures, what to change, and what to avoid.
Tree test
Read how the tree test works and how to word it for your product. Tree test guide.
Survey questions
Read how the survey questions works and how to word it for your product. Survey questions guide.
Before you launch
The notes the template ships with, from the researcher who wrote it.
- This tests labels and structure only, with no visual design. Tell people to navigate, not search.
- Aim for 50 or more people per task for stable success and directness numbers. Fewer than that and the results are directional.
- Run one task per tree here. For several tasks on the same structure, add more tree test blocks, each with its own task.
What you get back
AI testers run the study first and report what they found, so you see whether the task reads and whether the questions land before a real person opens the link. Then the real responses arrive: every click, rating, and answer per respondent, and Fiuto's reading of them as findings, a readout you can share behind a link, and a deck.
Your data is yours: results as JSON or CSV through a per-study token, or over MCP from the coding agent you build in.
Frequently asked questions
01How long does the tree test take to answer?
About 5 minutes. 4 blocks: the intake, the task or the questions, and the follow-ups. Fiuto shows the estimate to respondents on the study's first screen.
02Can I change the blocks?
Yes, every one. Fiuto rewrites the template around your product when you paste the URL, and you can edit any prompt, add a block, remove one, or change the order before you launch. Save the result as your own template to reuse it.
03Who answers it?
AI testers first, so you see what the study finds before anyone real does. Then real people: recruited from a global panel of 300,000+ participants powered by Prolific, with demographic filters, or your own users when you share the link. Respondents open the link and answer, no account needed.
04Is this template free?
Yes. Every template and every block type is on every plan, including Free. The free plan includes 1 live study a month, 10 responses per study, and 600 AI credits a month. No card, no time limit.