May
22
Filter fakers with bait responses
If there is a monetary incentive for participation, there will be people who try to fake their way into the
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Usability testing
Things I noticed UXRs tend to lapse when usability testing.
May
04
Populate prototype with realistic content - part 6, empty demo accounts
Realistic content is not only for prototypes - it's for live systems too.
The best is if we do the
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Apr
27
Populate prototype with realistic content - part 5, repetitive data
Populating UIs with realistic data is not hard. It's boring. That's why many Designers would copy-paste their way out of
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Apr
21
Populate prototype with realistic content - part 4, inconsistent data
On usability tests users will try to make sense of every little bit of the prototype. They will spot irregularities
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Apr
13
Populate prototype with realistic content - part 3, unrealistic data
Unrealistic data can easily derail our participant's thinking, wasting precious minutes from a usability session.
Unrealistic data
Dashboards, charts, and
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Mar
24
Populate prototype with realistic content - part 2, dummy content
Populating UIs with realistic data can be a pain in the ass. But it's worth it because we don't distract
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Mar
17
Populate prototype with realistic content - part 1, cultural references
When users work through a task, the more realistic the prototype is, the more realistic the users’ behavior will be,
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Mar
07
Rescreen participants to contextualize results
Why does this matter?
When kicking off usability sessions we tend to start with a couple of "get to know
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Feb
27
Don't assume the reason for struggle
When usability testing it sometimes feels very obvious why the user misunderstood something. But the human mind is a mystery
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Feb
17
Train participants to think aloud
When usability testing I instruct my participants to think out loud. However, despite their best effort, they would still forget
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