User Experience Research
Help us improve Stack Overflow
Tell us what you think about Stack Overflow products and features by participating in our user research studies. You’ll get a token of our appreciation plus the chance to shape tools and features that will help our community of developers around the world.
How it works
Join our panel
Join our panel by logging in or signing up, and opting into Research in your email settings. This will let us know that it's okay for us to occasionally invite you by email to take part in studies. You can participate in as little or as many as you’d like, but there are typically only a few per year.
Who participates?
If you use Stack Overflow, we want to talk to you - even if you stop by anonymously. All users across all our lines of product are invited to participate.
What you’ll do
During a research session, you’ll preview not-yet-released features or tell us your experience using the site. Our researchers will ask you a series of questions and you'll give them your honest feedback. Research chats take anywhere from 15-60 minutes.
What you’ll get
- A sneak peek at potential changes to the site - sooner than anyone else!
- Compensation for your time: a gift card or PayPal payment.
- Your voice heard and used to shape the future of Stack Overflow.
Who will I talk to?
A variety of people at Stack Overflow conduct research, including product managers, product designers, data scientists, and marketing managers. Most likely, you’ll speak with a member of our dedicated UX Research team.
Explore our research
We periodically share UX research updates on the Stack Overflow blog so that our community can get more visibility into one of the inputs we use to make product decisions. Explore some of our recent updates below!
