Posts Tagged ‘usability testing’

Usability Testing

The value of usability testing is to gain a better understanding of how your product works beyond the view of the in house design and development team. Let’s compare the value of testing to the practical application of farming; Farmer A. grows the freshest, steroid free, organically grown produce in all of Indiana, Farmer B. [...]

Lights, Camera, Test

Google Tech: Software Testing

What usability metrics can be used when testing out a design?

Here is a unique article on some usability metrics used to describe high level measurements: “Usability metrics Usability metrics are precise, quality measures used to evaluate the system. Their purpose is to produce a system that is neither under- nor over-engineered. To understand why usability metrics are useful, remember the joke about the guys out [...]

Usability Resources

Are you looking for material on usability or usability testing? Need information on how to conduct tests, new and improved products for capturing test data, or just a beginner, the following link can provide just that and more. UPA (Usability Professional Association) is a global organization committed to the growth in conceptual design and testing [...]

How do you usability test your lowfi designs? Or do you?

Do you test lowfi designs? How about testing folks around you? Friends, family, siblings and so on? When designing use any and all those near you. The more the merrier, right? I’m not sure if this practice has made it’s way into your common processes or concept phase? How about logo design, do you test [...]

Usability: “Usability with Kelly Norton”

Google’s Agile Testing

The MOM Test

How to design for MOM…

Paper Usability Test at Corel

Are designers out of touch with Usability professionals?

In a not so recent article from the folks at A List Apart ran an article titled “Usability expert are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus”: my question comes from this article. Meaning are designers out of touch with the world of design, where usability experts act solely on the whim of the powers [...]

Looking for a profession in Usability…

The local North Eastern Ohio Usability Professional Association is looking for professionals just like you. So, what is holding you back? Located in the local navigation just to the left of the main body of content in the three column layout… here we see a list of jobs that may interest you or someone you [...]