What are studies, blocks and sessions?
Three words carry most of how Fiuto works: study, block, session. The rest of the help center sits on top of those.
A study is the thing you build
Section titled “A study is the thing you build”A study is a sequence of questions and tasks you want a group of people to go through. You build it in the editor, give it a name, and at some point you launch it. Once it’s live, anyone with the link can take it.
Most studies are three to ten blocks long. People answer more carefully on short studies, and respondents tend to drop off as studies get longer.
Once you launch, the version you launched is frozen for the people taking it. You can keep editing and launch a new version later, but the people answering today see exactly what you launched. That keeps responses comparable.
A block is one thing you ask
Section titled “A block is one thing you ask”A block is one item in a study: one question, one task, or one thing you want the respondent to react to. The type of block decides what kind of data you get back: a rating gives you a distribution, an open-text gives you written answers, a click test gives you clicks on an image.
For help choosing between types, see Blocks.
A session is one respondent taking your study
Section titled “A session is one respondent taking your study”When someone opens your study link, that’s a session. Their answers and the time they spent on each block are saved together. Open the run under Launches to see the results for each block.
Partial sessions are saved too. If a respondent leaves halfway, you still see what they answered before that point.
The loop: build, launch, share, read, iterate
Section titled “The loop: build, launch, share, read, iterate”Fiuto sits around a short loop you’ll run more than once.
- Build. Open the editor, stack the blocks, write the questions.
- Launch. Click launch. Fiuto freezes the study and gives you a share link.
- Share. Send the link to the people you want feedback from. Sessions start arriving under Launches.
- Read. Skim the per-block summaries. Reload the page to check for new responses.
- Iterate. Edit, launch a new version, share the new link. The old version keeps its responses.
Most useful studies go around the loop more than once. The second version is usually better than the first.