A guide to all blocks you can use in Maze

A maze is a collection of unmoderated tasks and questions for testers to complete. Mazes are composed of separate blocks: missions (i.e. tasks), questions, and additional screens.

To get started, create a maze and build your new maze by adding blocks. You'll find all the block types on the right-side panel of the maze draft page.

The blocks include:

• Screener
• Prototype Test
• Website Test
• App Test
• Variant Comparison
• Open Question
• Simple Input
• Opinion Scale
• Multiple Choice
• Matrix
• Context Screen
• Yes/No
• Tree Test
• Card Sort
• 5-Second Test
• Legal Screen

If you're on a paid plan, you can also customize the Welcome Screen and the Thank You Screen.

Block types

Learn about the different types of blocks you can use in your maze.

Screener

The Screener block allows you to qualify or screen out testers directly within your maze, removing the need to filter and clean your results data.

Learn more about participant screening

Prototype Test

Create tasks for your testers to complete using your prototype.

Learn more about prototype tests

Website Test

Create tasks for your testers to complete directly on your website.

Learn more about web site tests

App Test

Record participants interacting with websites or apps on mobile devices. Requires participants to install the Maze Participate mobile app.

Learn more about the mobile app.

Variant Comparison (Enterprise plan)

Test different variants within a single maze.

Participants can be shown versions either sequentially or exclusively, enabling streamlined testing and analysis. This block consolidates all results, simplifying the comparison of user interactions and feedback across the tested variants.

Learn more about Variant Comparison

Open Question

Open Question blocks allow you to ask in-depth, exploratory questions.

Team and Enterprise plan customers can also harness the capabilities of GPT-4 and enable AI-generated follow-up questions.

Learn more about Open Questions and dynamic AI follow-ups

Simple Input

Simple input blocks allow you to ask basic questions to gather short text answers, or numerical, date, or email data. This is ideal when you want to ask simple, direct questions.

Learn more about Simple Inputs

Opinion Scale

An Opinion Scale question allows you to ask testers to rate a statement on a scale. You can adjust the scale to include up to 10 steps and write labels for the left, middle, and right of the scale.

Learn more about opinion scale blocks

Multiple Choice

A Multiple Choice is a question with multiple answers to choose from. Typically, this is used for closed-ended questions when respondents have to select one answer. You can also allow multiple-selection answers by choosing multi-select.

Learn more about multiple-choice blocks

Matrix

The Matrix block allows you to combine multiple statements (rows) with shared response options (columns), making it easy to gather comparative feedback in a single, organized view. Use it for Likert-scale surveys, feature satisfaction ratings, or any scenario where you want participants to evaluate multiple items using the same criteria.

Learn more about matrix blocks

Context Screen

A Context Screen is an extra screen you can add to your maze where you want to add context, explain the next part of the maze, or communicate something to your testers. You can add a title and a description. Testers will have to click “Continue” to move to the next block.

Learn more about Context Screens

Yes/No

A Yes/No question allows you to ask testers a closed-ended question where the answer is either ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

Learn more about yes/no questions

Tree Test (Team and Enterprise plan)

A Tree Test is a great way to validate the ease of finding items in your product structure.

Learn more about Tree Testing

Card Sort (paid plans)

A Card Sort allows you to discover how your users categorize and understand information.

Learn more about Card Sorting

5-Second Test

A 5-Second Test is a great way to test user recall, measuring what information users take away and what impressions they get within the first five seconds of viewing a design.

Learn more about the 5-Second Test

Legal Screen (Enterprise plan)

A legal screen allows you to ask testers to review and accept terms and conditions or other legal documents. Legal Blocks are an Enterprise feature.

Learn more about the Legal block

Default blocks

Each maze has a Welcome and Thank You Screen by default. If you're on a paid plan, you can customize these screens.

Welcome Screen

The Welcome Screen is the first screen in your maze. Every maze has a Welcome Screen by default with a message for your test participants. You can change the message on a paid plan.

Learn more about the Welcome Screen

Thank You Screen

The Thank You Screen is the last screen in your maze. Every maze has a Thank You Screen by default with a message for your test participants. You can change the message on a paid plan.

Learn more about the Thank You Screen