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…
What leads to Why
Farhad FarzanehEarlier 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…
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…
More on the ideal user
When most people think of performing usability testing, they think of using novices to see if the website is apparent to someone with very little experience. However, having now reviewed…
Looking for the ideal usability tester…
Let's assume we're about to embark on a user experience study and want to solicit the opinions of a handful of users, be it for a moderated or unmoderated study.…
How many users is enough?
Can you really learn much from viewing videos of a handful of users?
What about the user?
What do we need to know about our users, and how can we get some of this information?