How to Talk to Your Users
Farhad Farzaneh
We met Diane Loviglio, a user experience researcher at Mozilla, at a recent SF Bay Area meetup, and she shared some insights on the traditional Recruit-Observe-Interview-Navigate user testing process. 1.…
Updated usability demographics
Trymata
We recently upgraded the software to support finer age-based demographics, and also "fixed" our notion of demographics on education and social networks usage. Previously, we only allowed the choices of…
Five Secrets to Writing a Great Remote Usability Test
Sani El-Fishawy
With the advent of remote usability testing services such as TryMyUI and others just about anyone can create a usability test in minutes and have it performed by a user…
Tips On Writing Usability Tests When You Need Them
Previously, we wrote about some tips on how to write a good usability test on this blog. We have now incorporated some of those tips into a tips page that…
Tips for writing a usability test
To date at TryMyUI we have reviewed many thousands of usability test videos based upon tests created by our customers so we've learned what types of questions and tasks elicit…
Video Indexing!
TryMyUi adds video-indexing to quickly mark task positions in the video, and indicate the task duration.
New features on trymyui.com
Responding to your requests, we've added a couple of nifty features on trymyui.com. Autosaved notes A couple of you had the unpleasant experience that if you rated a use test…
Remedies for “Oops – I made a mistake in setting up my use test”
We added a couple of features recently to handle the oops case. This happens when you set up a use test, send it out to testers, and then realize that…
Don’t count on people to read instructions
While user testing on trymyui is easy, it's even easier for us to test our own design because each test that comes back reflects whether we've done a good job…
Impression Testing
Update: Read our latest article on the future of UX perspective. The five-second test (clueapp, fivesecondtest) is a very simple method for capturing a user's first impressions about the website. …