Cheap iOS Usability Testing

Can anyone do iOS device usability testing? Absolutely. There are some great tools out there today that make this possible. If we consider great applications such as Usabilla and UserTesting then we already have most areas covered. Both tools offer usability testing functionality on mobile platforms including iOS devices. With Usabilla and UserTesting.com we can do click analysis and record user sessions, too.

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Inspirational UX iPhone Apps

We have run into it at one point or another… the inspiration wall. With a plethora of blogs out there suggesting motives and methods to us on a daily basis it can be hard to lose sight of things.

Inspiration can be hard to come at times. I am always reminded of this fact when I listen to Faithless where Rollo sings ‘You don’t need eyes to see, you need vision‘.

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User Research vs Intuition

User Research and usability testing are (should be) two of the cornerstones of any company’s efforts to improve revenue generation through their online channel.

User Research allows us to create hypothesis that are aimed at improving the website’s user-friendliness, but more common, conversion. Usability testing allows us to test those hypotheses.

The resources needed to research, document, setup and execute usability testing are not dramatic, but they aren’t effortless either.

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Guerilla Online Panel Recruitment

In a past blog post I described in some detail some lean and mean methods to perform remote usability tests. The article is steadily bringing visitors to my blog, visitors, who like myself, need to find uncommon methods for performing online research in order to convince the corporate-powers-that-be, that what we can do is useful and critical to improving any company’s online services.

Working in an enterprise environment can seem daunting at times. As an online specialist, analyzing vast amounts of quantitative data, that often comes with an enterprise organization territory, is bliss. Qualitative data on the other hand often results in sleepless nights, loss of motivation, the sporadic appearance of grey hairs and for those less fortunate, receding hairlines.

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Interaction Insights with CrazyEgg

A few months ago I started getting questions from my colleagues on how the could use web analytics tools to gain insights into what and where the visitors clicked on individual pages.

Now, most of us know that many web analytics pages come with a ‘overlay’ functionality with which you can quickly get a glimpse at where visitors click. I would quickly like to point out a better way to measure and analyze interaction.

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