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In the first of our Usability Engineering series, we ran some quick usability tests on e-services available through the Saudi Ministry of Interior’s website. The aim was to show how even the simplest usability tests can bring to light significant usability flaws in your design. Moving away from government e-services, for our second article in […]
Usability testing is crucial for the survival of your business online. It shows you exactly where your customers have problems using your website, mobile app or software. You could have built the most beautiful and technologically advanced product, but if your users can’t use it, it may as well not exist. “If the user can’t use it, […]
The final article in our 3-part series on Designing an Arabic UX. We conclude the series by looking at challenges that come with usability testing in Saudi Arabia.
Calling all entrepreneurs, web designers, developers, and digital product managers. We’d love to invite you to our free UX training workshop and meetup on Saturday, February 28, 2015, at the Mobily Developer’s Lounge. Every month UXBERT hosts a UX Design meetup in Riyadh as a part of our initiative to empower, network, educate and transform the […]
Testing your design is the only guaranteed way to uncover the biggest usability flaws with your design. But how many users is the right number to test with?
As more and more organizations pour resources into their online presence the focus has turned to building and designing usable websites rather than those that are just ‘pretty’ or ‘cool’. For those of us who preach the mantra of user experience, this can’t be anything but great news.
Yet, while businesses may espouse the principles of usability, many of them still have a long way to go. Lip service alone isn’t enough; they need to correctly implement these principles in practice. One of the most important areas in which they are making mistakes is in their user research.
Test, test and test again. That’s a lot of testing. But what if you’re on a tight budget. How can you afford to dedicate resources to usability testing? Thinking about it like this results in many businesses considering it to be a luxury that they just can’t afford.
All is not lost. Usability testing is possible using a technique that is cheap, quick and can be done almost anywhere. This type of flexible method is called ‘Discount Usability Testing’.
User research is an essential step in the designing of any type of product. But asking the wrong questions can result in wasted time and money or even worse, feedback that results in the wrong design decisions. In this article we cover the 3 types of questions you shouldn’t be asking your users.
