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Test your information architecture with Treejack

Verne — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:01:25 +0000

We put a lot of emphasis on optimizing usability, user interactions and user interfaces. One area of the user experience that we often overlook testing on is information architecture. This is likely due to an absence of methods to test the effectiveness of information architecture. Sam Ng of Optimal Workshop saw the gap and built Treejack – an online test that helps site owners make decisions on their information architecture.

From the Treejack site:

Run simple online tests to get real numbers. Upload your sitemap, set tasks and see the paths participants take for each task. Results will focus your efforts on the areas of the IA that matter most.

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User testing with Userfly

Verne — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:00:55 +0000

User testing is one of the best ways to gather insight on the pains and gains of your site’s user experience. It’s difficult to fully picture how your users interact and react to your site’s features, interface and information until you’ve actually seen them do it in their own natural environment. Unfortunately, unless you can be a fly on every one of your site’s visitors’ wall, gathering this kind of data is next to impossible without investing into expensive usability tests.

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Userfly strives to fill this gap with its new usability testing service Secretary movie : a single line of javascript embedded into your site’s source code will give you access to information you thought you’d only see in your geeky dreams. By embedding the code, Userfly captures every click, scroll and type your visitors make and lets you replay them on your own screen, as if you were indeed a fly on their wall.

Be warned though – while you are able to capture your visitors’ every move, you’re still missing a critical piece in the mix: the user’s thought process. While you watch the silent playbacks, you have no sense of what is happening on the user’s end, which may skew the results. Nonetheless, Userfly provides a window into an area that was previously very difficult to access at an affordable rate (free to try, $0.05 per recorded user).

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The Five Second Test

Verne — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:17:41 +0000

The Five Second Test is designed to help test the effectiveness of your site’s interface by exposing test subjects to it for 5 seconds. The test comes in 3 flavours:

Classic:

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The sentiment five second test asks people to choose their most and least favourite elements after viewing your interface for five seconds.

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Test for whitespace with The Blur Test

Verne — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:29:41 +0000

The Blur Test involves blurring a site design, either by squinting, looking at it from a distance, or literally blurring it in Photoshop, in order to reveal the whitespace between typography and other visual elements. If blurring results in elements meshing together, more whitespace is required between them.

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7 tips for user research interviews

Verne — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:54:00 +0000

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Things to keep in mind when doing usability interviews with users:

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Set proper expectations.
Shut up and listen.
Minimize biased questions.
Be friendly.
Turn off your assumptions.
Avoid generalizations.
Don’t forget the non-verbal cues.

Source: Preparing for User Research Interviews: Seven Things to Remember (UXmatters)

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