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2 Tools That Make Remote Usability Tester Recruiting Easy & Fun
Fun? Yes, I said fun. And I meant it. There are two tools that I’ve come to love when I need to do some internal client remote usability tester recruiting, and I’m going to share them with all of you....
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Card Sorting: How do I analyze all of this crazy data?!
So card sorting is totally hot right now. It sounds really simple, and for the most part it is. You grab some cards, add the things you need to organize to the cards, then ask people to organize them...
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UX and Design Tools That Will Improve Your Productivity
This is a list of some of my favorite UX & design tools at the moment! I hope you find them as useful as I have! Tools for Collaboration Balsamiq http://www.balsamiq.com/ GotoMeeting...
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Mobile Usability Testing Tools
So I recently started searching like a maniac trying to find some Mobile Usability Testing tools, and I had a heck of a time finding any resource lists! So I decided to put one together for anyone else...
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A Complete Mobile Usability Testing Solution
The Problem Recently I wrote a blog post about how there are currently a couple of really great mobile usability testing tools out there, but I couldn’t find any that did everything I needed. I tweeted...
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Ditch Captchas And Give Folks Some Honey
You know what are absolutely terrible? Captchas. Verify you’re a human? Hardly. Verify you’ve been taking illicit drugs that make text on acid look readable? More like it. Captchas and Accesibility...
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Pareto Principle Based User Research Methodology
Recently I had the opportunity to present at the 2013 Web Conference at Penn State. My session focused on some Pareto Principle Based User Research that I’d had the opportunity to conduct for...
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Homepage Info Sliders… Please Go Away!
So I just went to a website, I won’t mention the name, and they had a rotating info banner on their homepage. And it was the primary source of information on their product. Argh! Could we as an...
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Accessibility: It Applies to Me Too?!
I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Penn State Web Conference 2 weeks ago. It was a great conference with some amazing sessions. Karen McGrane did a keynote (amazing) and so did Cindy Li...
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Password Strength Indicators: Make Them Useful and Accessible
So the time has come for your company or client to add a password strength indicator. How do you do this in a useful and accessible way? Here are some ideas to get you started. 1. Show a Progress Bar...
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New to Usability Testing? You’re not alone!
You Are Not Alone! I recently presented a user research method that I found particularly helpful at a tech conference, and at the start of the session I asked how many of the 60+ attendees had...
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6 UX Tips To Help You Keep Your Website From Becoming “That Guy”
Have you ever seen a person and thought, “Wow! He or she is REALLY attractive!” Then the person starts talking and is so arrogant, crazy, clueless or obnoxious that you’re all, “Wait, false alarm, the...
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When Usability Testers Scream at You Silently
So recently I was standing in my new kitchen reaching for a drawer because I needed a spoon, and I said out loud, “Oh, duh, wrong drawer.” Then I realized that the wrongness was that the spoons were...
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Designers: No Matter What You Do, You Can’t Make Everyone Happy All The Time
So you launch your latest product or website enhancements, and you get a mixed bag of responses from your clients. You slaved over your design for months, perfecting every detail. You did tons of user...
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Top 15 UX and Design Tools of 2013
This is a list of my top 15 UX and design tools for 2013, listed in random order. These tools fit together to make my life simpler and better organized on a daily basis. They also, when used in...
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Icon Usability Testing: Keep Your Product Names Out Of It
Time To Test Some Icons Recently we launched a mobile icon usability test to help us select icons to represent several areas of our product in an upcoming mobile app release. We split our testers into...
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3 Unsubscribe UX Rules To Live By
Today I got the 9,347,598th notification email from a startup I was checking out a few months ago when they were in beta. I realized that their incessant emails were really starting to irritate me, and...
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Analytics and Improving UX: What’s the Connection?
Part of my role as a Content Strategist and UX Editor is to keep an eye on, and harvest data on our monthly analytics, and then write an analysis report. I am a giant stats nerd and absolutely love...
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Reason #9072 You Should Always Record Usability Tester Facial Video and Audio
Filed under: Design, Sketch, Usability, User Research, UX Tagged: design, sketch, Usability, Usability Testing, UX
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Usability Testing: The Money Saving Ego Killer
Ever had a feature idea, tested it and had clients hate on the idea so hard during usability testing that it completely crushed your ego? It happens. But the thing to remember when it happens is that...
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