Clarity Highlights is a new feature designed to transform long session recordings into short, insightful clips, similar to social media shorts. It addresses the common challenge of sifting through lengthy recordings to find valuable user interactions by automatically highlighting key moments such as taps, clicks, form inputs, and smart UI events. This feature uses smart event detection to filter out background noise and maintains a smooth viewing experience by skipping uneventful parts while preserving enough context.
Why Highlights?
Traditional session recordings capture everything, making it time-consuming to find important insights. Highlights streamline this process by focusing only on the core elements of the user journey, helping teams avoid missing critical opportunities for improvement.
How Highlights Work
- Smart Event Detection: Filters out irrelevant content and focuses on meaningful user interactions.
- Speed & Flow: Skips uneventful segments but keeps enough context for clarity.
Benefits of Highlights
- Faster Decision-Making: Instead of watching a full 6-minute recording, users can view a 90-second reel that surfaces the most significant user struggles or successes, saving time and enabling quicker action.
- Accessible Insights for Everyone: Highlights make it easier for executives, designers, and marketers to quickly understand user behavior without needing to watch full replays or dive into technical details.
These advantages help teams respond to user needs faster, align on priorities, and accelerate improvements.
Getting Started with Clarity Highlights
- Navigate to the Recordings tab in Clarity.
- Toggle on the Highlights feature.
- Select a session recording to watch highlights.
Currently, Highlights are available only for web session recordings and not supported on Clarity for mobile apps. By using Clarity Highlights, teams can spend less time searching through recordings and more time making informed decisions, improving collaboration, and enhancing user experiences.
