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Aug
20
3 Levels of Usability Design
August 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
While I may have wanted to blackball my colleague, Dana Chisnell out of personal poutiness due to her leaving the Bay Area (pooey); She just keeps on churning out amazing and useful books Handbook of Usability Testing, 2nd Ed. and articles.
Today, she wrote this blog post about providing more than just basic usability in a [...]
Jul
15
What is Usability Testing?
July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I own my own business and when people ask what I do, I say, “I do usability testing.” Quite often (even when they are in software or product development) they give that quizzical look.
Then ask, “What exactly is Usability Testing?”
I have a few different spiels (and resources on this site). I can go into great [...]
Jul
10
Silverback Guerilla Usability Testing
July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I have been using Morae fromTechSmith to do the bulk of my usability testing and have been wanting to run tests using my mac. One of the applications I have been looking at is Silverback made by Clearleft. From what I can see, it is a stripped down application that will work well for guerilla-style, [...]
Mar
14
UX in an Agile Development Process
March 14, 2009 | 1 Comment
I had a conversation with a colleague yesterday about Agile development environments and how it is difficult to evangelize usability and design with UX in mind. While I argued that it was completely possible to keep usability as a priority while still scrumming constantly and pushing the envelope of development, I realize that in larger [...]
Jan
21
New Usability Tools
January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
The ability to do usability testing more naturally (not in a lab) as well as get more data (not a one hour session) have been issues that usability professionals have dealt with for years. Leave it to the innovators at Mozilla Labs to help get us out of the rut of lab testing.
Soon we will [...]
