City Interaction Lab’s Observation Room. Waiting for participants and stakeholders for some project engagement and user-centred design evangelism =).
Tag: Usability Testing
Usability testing is a technique used in user-centred interaction design to evaluate a product by testing it with representative users. This can be seen as an irreplaceable usability practice since it gives direct input on how real users use the system.
A decision tree and a ranking matrix for sorting user research insights by frequency (scale) and impact (severity) on the product.
Web analytics can transform user behaviour from a puzzle to a mystery [which can be] easily solved from watching and asking a few users.
Using Regular Expressions to enhance filtering in CrazyEgg.
Comparative Usability Evaluation wisdom
Rolf Molich contrasting Comparative Usability Evaluation (CUE) with Jakob Nielsen’s rubric that testing a design with 5 users will reveal 85% of the most important usability problems.
Some great videos from the RNIB about how to guide people with vision loss and other disabilities
Fun day testing an innovative responsive navigation concept for tablet devices for City University London’s Department of Journalism.
Build a mobile device testing sled using only materials readily available in a standard office stationary cupboard (and kitchen).
Etch A Sketch Wireframe Tool
Portable, doesn’t require batteries, encourages rapid iteration. *Super practical*!
Success via Failure
ZURB on why prototyping is a way to discover errors in your thinking






