May 31, 2009
Automatic Usability Evaluation Applications
I was fortunate enough to be a part of a discussion last week on LinkedIn about opinions around using usability evaluation tools as well as recommendations on what others have used successfully on client projects. If you want to simply access my bookmarks here. My immediate response was this: ————— Automatic usability evaluation applications have their place in the testing... read more
May 17, 2009
Heuristic Evaluation – Finding Usability Problems
In today’s fast moving design/development environments and straining economy demands that teams become more resourceful in how they practice quality control in interface design. Not every project has the budget to perform interface design testing. That is a given. However, there are options. Nielsen and Molich developed one such option called Heuristic Evaluation. It is considered and intended as a... read more
May 3, 2009
User Experience and Diagrams
What often fascinates me about formulating user experience is essentially that in order to think out of the box, we have to exist in the box….or sphere…or honeycomb, you get the point. It makes sense though. Consider this – in Holger Maassen’s post on “UX Design-Planning Not One-man Show” he writes “experiences are momentary and brief – sometimes they are part of... read more
