usability

28 Sep 2007 - 1:42pm
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Joy Zigo
2005

NYC-UPA Oct 16 Event: Eye-Tracking for Usability

NYC Usability Professionals Association presents:

Eye-Tracking for Usability Testing

Seeing what people do and hearing what they say is the heart of usability
research. But what's the brain doing? Nielsen Norman Group used eye-tracking
technology to watch hundreds of people's eyes as they used the Web, doing a
plethora of different tasks and using different websites. Seeing exactly
what the user is looking at – and not looking at – is like getting to sneak
into his brain for a little while.

26 Sep 2007 - 3:30pm
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5 years ago
6 replies
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Fredrik Matheson
2005

Hack your own usability studio (long recipe, low price)

At work we use Morae (http://techsmith.com/morae.asp) for user
testing. Quirks aside, it works pretty well.

The other day all our copies of Morae were busy and I needed a way to
let colleagues observe the use of a website in the room next door.
Basic requirements were:

1. a computer that the user would browse from (PC or Mac, it didn't matter)
2. some way to show what was on the user's screen on another computer
3. video of the user (one or more)
4. audio of what the user was doing
5.

21 Sep 2007 - 10:06pm
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5 years ago
7 replies
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Jack L. Moffett
2005

iPhone Usability Test

Has anyone read about the iPhone vs. HTC Touch vs. Nokia N95
usability study performed by Perceptive Sciences?

http://tinyurl.com/yojmyr

While I believe the final result is likely correct (the iPhone wins
handily), I question the integrity of the study.

10 Sep 2007 - 2:17pm
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Leonardo Vernazza
2007

Airplane Entertainment System

Hi, I want to share a usability problem I faced in the airplane
entertainment system.

I think it is a very common problem in this kind of user interfaces.

Read the full article here
<http://www.himalia.net/blogs/leovernazza/2007/09/usability-cookie-airplane-
entertainment.html> .

31 Jul 2007 - 4:04pm
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5 years ago
9 replies
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russwilson
2005

Usability testing at conferences

I just returned from a conference where we tested several interaction

designs on 45 users (you can see a summary here along with a simple
breakdown

of what it cost us:
http://www.dexodesign.com/2007/07/usability-testing-at-conferences.html)
.

This was a very successful event for us; we came back with great
feedback

that will feed several changes in our designs.

Out of curiosity, do many others do any usability testing at conferences

in their domains (this was a networking conference - my company c

13 Jun 2007 - 9:15am
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Terms:
Desiree Sy
2005

"Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile UCD" published

Several people were asking about resources/case studies/help
to do agile user-centred design. The Journal of Usability
Studies has just published an article I wrote that describes
in detail the adaptations to usability investigations (such
as rapid formative usability testing and contextual inquiry)
that the Autodesk (was Alias) UX team made in order to
support UCD:

http://upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/2007may/agile-ucd.html

I hope there is some helpful material in it.

31 Jan 2007 - 4:18pm
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6 years ago
32 replies
Terms:
Dante Murphy
2006

Usability as Feature

I'm branching from an earlier topic in which this statement was made:

"Maybe you can re-frame your usability improvements as features?"

I've thought about this several times in recent months while reading
this list.

31 Jan 2007 - 2:11pm
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6 years ago
4 replies
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Josephine Choi
2005

Usability testing software for Mac?

Hi everyone,

My company's working on a new Mac product that we will be doing usability
testing on. We use Morae for our Windows products and like the features it
provides.

We're looking to find something comparable for testing Mac software. We are
doing testing on-site, so remote testing software is not necessary.
However, we would like reliable screen capture. Remote observer capability
and real-time marking/flagging would also be nice to haves. For those who
have experience with testing Mac software, would you be able to share your
experiences and process?

31 Jan 2007 - 12:43pm
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6 years ago
13 replies
Terms:
jbellis
2005

Anyone succeeded in getting a usability-only release?

Have any of you ever succeeded in getting a software release dedicated solely to usability fixes? I guess I'm primarily addressing in-house specialists... presumably consultants are often engaged to address solely usability.

Thanks, www.jackbellis.com

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