Heritage & evolution
Years in the usability lab. Rebuilt for today.
Ovo Logger isn't new to lab research. It helped define the practice. This is that lineage, evolved: the rigor of a classic moderated lab, with an engine, an intelligence, and a privacy model built for the way research works now.
01 / The lineage
A long line, carried forward, not a fresh start.
The moderated usability lab has a rich history: observation rooms, synchronized recording, note-takers behind the glass. Ovo Logger grew up in that world and kept advancing while the industry drifted to the browser. ADC 4 is the latest step, not the first.
The classic suites
Desktop tools like Morae defined moderated lab research - observation, multi-source recording, structured findings. Coming from Morae?
A Windows original
Ovo's long-running lab tool - multi-source capture, surveys, task materials, and findings, in the lab.
64-bit & HD
A modern encoding core, up to four HD sources recorded together, even from a portable lab.
Rebuilt, intelligent, on-premises
A new engine, AI that runs on your hardware, offline by design, and a modern, accessible interface.
02 / Kept & rebuilt
We kept what mattered. We rebuilt everything else.
The move to the cloud traded away the rigor of a real lab for convenience. We didn't. What made lab research trustworthy stayed, and the machinery beneath it is entirely new.
WHAT WE KEPT
The discipline of a proper usability lab - the parts the browser generation left behind.
- Moderated sessions with real observers behind the glass
- Multiple synchronized sources on one timeline
- Task timing, tagging, and structured findings
- Deliverables that travel - the report as HTML, PDF or Word, the findings as a deck, and the study's data as HTML and CSV, opening anywhere with no viewer software
- A lab you own and control, room and hardware included
WHAT WE REBUILT
Everything under the hood - a generational leap, not a coat of paint.
- A modern capture engine - efficient, high-frame-rate, multi-source
- On-premises AI - findings, Q&A, and study design with no upload
- On-premises by design - offline, air-gapped, node-locked
- A modern, accessible UI - themes, high-DPI, WCAG 2.2 AA
- A self-contained project, one file you hold, no server
03 / Coming forward
If you know the lab, you already know this.
Whether you're a long-time Ovo Logger lab or coming from another classic desktop suite, the practice you already run carries straight over - the same moderated flow, just modernized. And we help you bring your history with you.
Your workflow, familiar
Setup, record, observe, review, report - the loop you know, rebuilt cleaner.
Bring your studies forward
Import sessions from an ADC 3 project, and recording setups and lab hardware from an Ovo Logger 7.1 or ADC 3 configuration, right in the app.
Keep your lab investment
Your room, your hardware, your team - modernized around them, not replaced.
Bring the lab you know into today.
Tell us what you're running now - an older Ovo Logger, a classic desktop suite, or a lab that's outgrown its tools, and we'll show you the modern version of the work you already do.