For those of us looking for quality usability testing, we know how expensive it can be. UserTesting.com is a low-cost alternative that gives you results from remote testers within your niche’s demographic.
Professionals within our industry are completely awash with opportunities by which they can tweak and cajole better user experiences from their projects. The difficult part is maintaining quality across all of these channels. Because of how multifaceted User Experience is, a user experience designer begins to take on a more directorial position within a project/company, which I see as analogous to that of a creative director.
In my last article, I gave examples of the key things that I learned from Steve Krug’s great book Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Designing websites is an art form as much as it is a science. That’s why here at the UXBooth, we like to occasionally take a break from sharing our opinions to highlight the experiences of others. This month, we’ve asked Travis Schmeisser of nGenWorks to share the secrets of his company’s trade.
Dr. John Morgan is a pioneer in the field of User Research and Usability. During the course of the interview I got to pick his brain about what makes usability such an important contemporary issue and how his experiences have shaped our industry.
The UX Booth finds Clearleft’s Silverback to be a great tool for the job: guerilla usability tests. It’s a piece of software aimed at empowering the people that develop applications. From their website: [Silverback provides] spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for designers and developers. Read on to find the UX Panel’s comments and suggestions.
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