Nuts and Bolts: Usability Testing Demystified
Beverly Arnoldy
Usability Consultant
You've read the book, you're seen the movie. Now,
experience it for yourself. Join us as we demonstrate a real
usability test! Under the guidance of Beverly Arnoldy,
usability consultant, you'll learn how to prepare for a
test, execute the test, and analyze the data.
Prepare
- Decide what to test.
- Pick usability subjects who will give you the best
data.
- Develop the necessary materials used for the tests.
Execute
Bev will show you a usability test in action. Watch the
hapless user struggle. See Bev deftly handle the obnoxious
developer trying to tell the user what to do. Bev tells you
how to handle these common situations and shares her list of
don'ts for usability testing.
Analyze and Present
Tapes, notes, and hunches. What do you do with all that
stuff? Bev will show you how to do some quick analysis of
the data you collect during the usability test. She'll also
give you some tips on how to present the data to your
engineering team in a format they can understand.
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