Tuesday, Jul 29, 2008
Weekly usability tests, Nielsen talks about Tivo
Nielsen shares how frequent usability tests keep you usability focused. I want to know how you keep yourself experience focused.
Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox shares how Tivo did 12 usability tests in 12 weeks and offers some tips and guidelines for doing the same at your organization.
I’ve actually been hearing about this a lot lately: design teams running weekly or bi-weekly usability tests. It’d be nice to have more companies share their experiences, the how and why and such. At CIM we did something similar in concert with a project using the scrum process.
While this is all cool, the article summary really stuck in my craw: “frequent and regular testing keeps the design usability focused”.
Why would you want to keep your design usability focused? Nielsen probably doesn’t mean only focused on usability, but it sure comes off that way. It just feels so 90s.
If we all know the design should be focused on the experience what kind of frequent tests can you run to keep your design experience focused?
Well? If you were running some kind of bi-weekly validation to keep your team experience focused, what would it look like? Hint: There’s a comment box right down… there. Fess up.
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Marc Van Rymenant said:
Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:04 PM