Morae

Morae is a leading usability software that removes the guesswork from your decisions and helps you make products people love. Record user interactions, efficiently analyze results, and instantly share your findings with anyone, anywhere.

As one of the leading usability software tools on the market, Morae offers an all-encompassing testing experience for its users.

Recorder captures audio, video, on-screen activity, and keyboard/mouse input during a research session.

Morae ties what used to involve lots of devices and applications that didn’t talk to each other into one tidy package – eliminating hours of wasted effort. With Morae, all your data is captured digitally and indexed to one master timeline for instant retrieval and analysis.

Select a research method from Morae’s preset study templates – focus group, software usability test, or mobile device test – and Morae will set up the initial details for you. It even shows you a live preview of what will be recorded.

From there, it's simple to add things like task definitions, discussion questions, surveys, and custom markers. Want to use the same configuration again later? Morae allows you to save and re-use.

Make the most of Morae by writing your own Recorder, Observer, and Manager plug-ins. Morae’s pluggable architecture enables you and your development team to build features specific to your testing environment.

Learn more about the expanding flexibility of Morae’s pluggable architecture and about the plug-ins that partnering companies have already created on Morae’s Plug-ins Page.

Use Morae’s camera-only recording to reach beyond the screen to record customer interactions that don't happen on the computer – like focus groups, in-depth interviews, hardware testing, paper prototype testing, and more.

Plug multiple video cameras into your computer for off-screen recording or PIP (Picture-in-picture). You can use consumer-grade digital video (DV) cameras, webcams, or a mix of both. When you're not recording the screen, you can use the recording computer for logging notes too .

Morae collects and stores data neatly in one place and gives you all the tools you need to view, analyze, graph, and present results with just a click.

Ask survey questions before the session, after each task, and at the end of testing – automatically or manually. Use the system usability scale (SUS), or create any number of custom surveys in a variety of formats – multiple choice, select all that apply, rating scale, or open-ended. 

AutoPilot delivers instructions, tasks, and surveys automatically during test sessions. Set up unmoderated testing at a public kiosk or a tradeshow booth and gather data without being there. If you’re flying solo, AutoPilot allows you to prompt, listen, and observe more carefully during testing.

Observer enables team members to watch the customer's experience, make notes, flag tasks, and chat in real-time.

With Morae’s chat feature, it’s now easier than ever to interact with fellow Observers during testing – even if they’re not co-located. Use Morae’s real-time chat to communicate from Observer-to-Observer while testing, or from Observer-to-Recorder for pre and post-testing.

Give team members or clients a copy of the session right away by uploading it to your free Screencast.com account for instant sharing to anyone, anywhere.

Unlike logging with a stopwatch and notepad, Morae helps observers give structured, detailed feedback that is automatically synchronized and placed at the right moment on the video timeline. During research sessions, observers flag important moments by selecting a preset marker. Morae’s streamlined logging process results in more detailed, instantly searchable notes – saving you hours of time during review and analysis.

Connect to a live Recorder session from anywhere via a network. Observers can see and hear anything being recorded – customers' faces, voices, or interactions on-screen or with physical objects. Team members or stakeholders running Morae Observer can collaboratively log comments, set markers, and chat in real-time resulting in more efficient logging, stronger buy-in, and a deeper understanding of your customers.

Automatically calculate standard metrics such as time on task or error rate by consistently marking a few simple things during each recording – like when the participant starts a task, ends a task, and whether they succeed or not.

Use Manager to view and analyze Morae recordings, automatically calculate metrics, generate graphs, and create highlight videos to share with stakeholders.

Within Morae, you can search across many recordings to uncover patterns and trends in the data – without having to open Excel. You can also limit your search to one recording.

Instantly find and view the exact moment when participants clicked a button, typed something, navigated to a particular webpage, interacted with a specific dialog box, or viewed certain text on the screen.

Markers and tasks set during a recording session appear along the timeline as color-coded diamonds and triangles. Hover over these indicators for details; click one to jump to that moment in the video making it easy to review hours of video (along with comments and suggestions from a whole team of observers) faster.

Seek out important parts of your videos to showcase to others with Morae’s Table of Contents. Then deliver highlight videos quickly and securely over the internet with Screencast.com.

As a Morae customer, you get free storage and bandwidth on Screencast.com, which allows you to upload test results with one click and instantly share to anyone, anywhere. Morae maintenance customers will now receive a free Screencast.com Pro account, which offers more storage, monthly bandwidth, and caption capabilities.

Morae saves you valuable time by calculating data and building graphs quickly. Morae automatically calculates and graphs standard usability metrics like effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction. (Attention usability experts: We've got your CIF and SUS covered.)

You can also create your own measurements and graphs based on mouse movement, clicks, time on task, markers, and satisfaction surveys.

Embed videos, graphs, and title clips from Morae directly onto PowerPoint slides with a few clicks – saving you time.

With Morae’s Word Add-in, simply drag and drop graphs, screenshots, data tables, survey questions, and more directly into a Word document. Produce a powerful, professional report for stakeholders in a fraction of the time.

• Variable speed playback
• Ability to import pre-recorded video files
• Text and audio annotation
• Exportable data tables
• Built in video editing
• Customizable picture-in-picture video
• And more!

In order to get the maximum benefit from Morae, we have a recommended set of system specifications. If you are planning to purchase a new computer to use with Morae, we strongly recommend that the system you buy meet or exceed our recommended specifications.*

• Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
• Windows Media Player 9 or later
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or equivalent processor
• RAM: 2GB (Windows 7 / Vista), 1 GB (Windows XP)
• Microsoft DirectX version 9.0c or later
• Windows-compatible sound card, microphone, and speakers
• Approximately 10-15 MB disk space per minute of video created
• 650 MB of hard-disk space for program installation

• Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
• Windows Media Player 9 or later
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or equivalent processor
• RAM: 2GB (Windows 7 / Vista), 1 GB (Windows XP)
• Microsoft DirectX version 9.0c or later
• Windows-compatible sound card, microphone, and speakers
• Approximately 10-15 MB disk space per minute of saved video
• Networked computer with 10 Mbps (Required for Observer) Recommended: 100 Mbps or higher
• Bluetooth-capable computer or Bluetooth adapter (Required for logging with a remote)
• Wii Remote (Required for logging with a remote)
• 250 MB of hard-disk space for program installation

• Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
• Windows Media Player 9 or later
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or equivalent processor
• RAM: 2GB (Windows 7 / Vista), 1 GB (Windows XP)
• Microsoft DirectX version 9.0c or later
• Windows-compatible sound card, microphone, and speakers
• Approximately 10-15 MB disk space per minute for recording
• Networked computer with 10 Mbps (Required for Observer) Recommended: 100 Mbps or higher
• Microsoft Windows compatible FireWire (IEEE 1394) card for DV cameras
• Bluetooth-capable computer or Bluetooth adapter (Required for logging with a remote)
• Wii Remote (Required for logging with a remote)
• 150 MB of hard-disk space for program installation