Compelled Shopping Test
Sani El-FishawyAt Bolt Peter's User Research Friday conference today Jared Spool talked about a test I had never heard of before. He called it the Compelled Shopping Test. When I first…
Dana Chisnell at B|P User Research Friday – Research in a Social Context
Usability Testing in a Social Context Dana Chisnell gave a great talk today at Bolt Peters User Research Friday. Her observation was that almost all activities on the web occur…
Jared Spool Keynote at B|P User Research Friday
Jared Spool is acting as master of ceremonies this morning at Bolt Peter's User Research Friday. Here is a summary of the talk... Four Stories about Five Studies Jared's talk…
Why do Entrepreneurs Get Stuck in the Muck?
Andrew Warner interviewed Troy Henikoff, founder of the successful Chicago-based incubator Excelerate, on Mixergy. One thing that stuck with me from the interview: the most common mistake made by entrepreneurs…
Great interview with Jeff Atwood of StackOverflow on building community.
I came across an old but very good interview by Scott Hanselman with Jeff Atwood of StackOverflow. StackOverflow is trying to replicate its tremendously successful curated Q&A model into topics…
More confusing UI from a very popular service
Farhad FarzanehQuora is a very popular new service from the ex-CTO of Facebook. Here's an image of part of the main page: The top bar shows an entry box followed by…
UI fail from the UI gurus
Here's a user interface failure courtesy of Apple: Note that the window cannot be expanded (why?). So how exactly are we supposed to know what the "Convert Selected Simplified C..."…
What leads to Why
Earlier we wrote about the difference between quantitative usability measurements, which answer the question: What are users doing? and qualitative measurements (for example, as provided by TryMyUi), which answer Why…
Providing a free test and asking for a credit card…
TrymataWe provide a free test for new users. However, we do ask that the user have a valid credit card. Although we don't charge the credit card (we simply make…
3 facets defining the user experience
At TryMyUI we review a lot of user testing videos. In these narrated videos the tester verbalizes her thoughts as she performs the tasks in the usability test. In this…