For a design researcher conducting usability tests in a multicultural situation, non-verbal cues, when analysed for either commonalties or differences, can yield valuable insights that supplement verbal reports. In other words, it is posited here that the subtleties of the cognitive processes in usability testing or any user data elicitation technique can be interpreted through the analysis patterns of accompanying kinesthetic cues in addition to the verbal data. To explore the role and nature of non-verbal communication in a usability testing situation involving cross- cultural teams we posed ourselves the following questions and stated them in the form of posits.