Information Technology Systems & Services
Evaluation and Testing
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Inquiry
Contextual Inquiry
- Contextual Inquiry by James Hom
- Contextual Inquiry by UsabilityNet
- Remote Contextual Inquiry: A Technique to Improve Enterprise Software - Jeff English and Lynn Rampoldi-Hnilo
- Stalk Your User - Jeffrey Veen
- What is Contextual Enquiry? - Gerry Gaffney
Field Study
- An Ethnographic Approach to User Experience: a Bibliography - Louise Ferguson
- Coming of Age in Ethnography - Dave Rogers
- Ethnographic Study / Field Observation - James Hom
- Field Research Fundamentals: An Interview with Kate Gomoll - Ashley McKee
- Field Studies Done Right: Fast and Observational - Jakob Nielsen
- Field Studies: The Best Tool to Discover User Needs - Jared Spool
- Get Out of Your Lab, and Into Their Lives - Peter Merholz
- Learning How to Focus on Field Studies - Jared Spool
- Tips for Talking with Users During Site Visits - Dr. Janice (Ginny) Redish
- User Research Friday - Lane Halley
- What is Ethnography and How does it Aid Customer Understanding? - Simon Pulman-Jones
- When Observing Users Is Not Enough: 10 Guidelines for Getting More Out of Users' Verbal Comments - Isabelle Peyrichoux
Focus Groups
- 10 Tips For Running Successful Focus Groups - Thomas L. Greenbaum
- Basics of Conducting Focus Groups - Carter McNamara
- Beneath the surface in focus groups - George Silverman
- Conducting Focus Groups - Carter McNamara
- First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users - Jakob Nielsen
- Focus Groups - How to Run Them - Tim Fidgeon
- Focus-Pocus - Pine and Gilmore.
- Internet Focus Groups: an Oxymoron - Tom Greenbaum
- Interviews and Focus Groups - James Hom
- Mind the Gap...On the appropriate use of focus groups and usability testing in planning and evaluating Interfaces - Kath Straub
- Process Research Via Focus Groups - DeeDee DeMulling
- Is Consumer Research Losing Its Focus?
- The Use and Misuse of Focus Groups - Jakob Nielsen warns that what users say and do are often different things
- User Interviews - A Basic Introduction - Alistair Gray
Interviews
- Face to Face With Your Users: Running a Nondirected Interview - Mike Kuniavsky
- Fast-tracking Research with Paired Interviews - Iain Barker
- Remote Interviews - DeeDee DeMulling
- Six Steps to Better Interviews and Simplified Task Analysis - Indi Young
- User Interviews - A Basic Introduction - Alistair Gray
- User Interviews - Analysis Simplified - Alistair Gray
Observation
- Don't Ask -- Observe - Jeff Atwood
- Fly on the Wall - Eyitope St. Matthew and Robert J. Kamper
- Number One Skill for Managing a Website - Gerry McGovern
- Observing Users Who Listen to Web Sites - Janice Redish and Mary Frances Theofanos
- Research-based observations - Bob Bailey
- Why Doing User Observations First is Wrong - Donald Norman
Questionnaires
- Honest Appraisal Shows That Asking Users May Give Misleading Results - Ann Light
- Methods and Guidelines to Avoid Common Questionnaire Bloopers - Chauncey Wilson
- Measuring Usability with the USE Questionnaire - Arnie Lund
- Playing Piggy in the Middle - Caroline Jarrett
- Questionnaires by James Hom
- Questionnaires in Usability Engineering - Jurek Kirakowski
- Questionnaire (Part 1) - Jakob Nielsen
- Questionnaire (Part 2) - Jakob Nielsen
- Software Usability Measurement Inventory (SUMI)
- The Use of Questionnaire Methods for Usability Assessment - J. Kirakowski
- Web site Analysis and MeasureMent Inventory. (WAMMI) - Jurek Kirakowski and Nigel Claridge
- Web-Based User Interface Evaluation with Questionnaires - Gary Perlman
Surveys
- Creating Effective Online Surveys: Owning Photoshop doesn't make you an artist - Kath Straub
- How Many Subjects Do I Need for a Statistically Valid Survey - Daryle Gardner-Bonneau
- Keep Online Surveys Short - Jakob Nielsen
- The Role of Online Surveys in the Usability Assessment Process - William MacElroy
- Survey Response Rates? 2 Percent is not Good Enough - Caroline Jarrett
- Surveys by James Hom
- Surveys - What is an Acceptable Response Rate? - Caroline Jarrett
- Web Survey Considerations - David Kimmel
Inspection
Heuristic Evaluation
- A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype - Michael D. Levi and Frederick G. Conrad
- Are Heuristic Usability Evaluations Useful? - Kim Krause Berg
- Characteristics of usability problems found by heuristic evaluation - Jakob Nielsen
- Content Analysis Heuristics - Fred Leise
- Culture and Usability Feature: Culture as a Design Heuristic - Ann Light
- Evaluating the Usability of Documentation - Heuristic Inspections for Documentation - Vesa Purho
- Expert Usability Review vs. Usability Testing - Lisa Halabi
- Information Architecture Heuristics - Louis Rosenfeld
- Heuristic Evaluation By Emma Tonkin
- Heuristic Evaluation by Jakob Nielsen
- Heuristic Evaluation: A System Checklist - Denise Pierotti
- Heuristic evaluation - UsabilityNet
- Heuristic Evaluation: A System Checklist - Denise Pierotti
- Heuristic Evaluation Activities - Denise Pierotti
- Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype - Michael D. Levi and Frederick G. Conrad
- Heuristic Evaluation Quality Score (HEQS): Defining Heuristic Expertise - Shazeeye Kirmani
- How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation- Jakob Nielsen
- Interactive Heuristic Evaluation Toolkit
- Pitting Usability Testing Against Expert Review - Kath Straub
- Persona-led Heuristic Inspection is Here - Caroline Jarrett
- Usability Heuristics Explained - John Wood
- Usability Heuristics for Rich Internet Applications - Jess McMullin and Grant Skinner
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Site Audits 1
- Introduction to Site Audits - David Moore
- Site Audits 2: How to Conduct an Audit - David Moore
- Site Audits 3: Benchmarking and Recommendations - David Moore
- Take Breaks! A Simple Way to Improve Your Heuristic Evaluation Results - Laura Faulkner
- Technology Transfer of Heuristic Evaluation and Usability Inspection - Jakob Nielsen
- Ten Usability Heuristics - Jakob Nielsen
- The Usability Specialist's Favorite: Heuristic Evaluation - Joanna Bawa
- Usability Heuristics for Web Development Teams - Lisa Herrod
- Website Evaluation Rubric - Denny Lancaster
- What Are You Asking For When You Ask For a Heuristic Evaluation? - Dana Chisnell
- Where Do Heuristics Come From? - Dana Chisnell
Walkthrough
- Cognitive Walkthrough - Zhijun (William) Zhang
- Cognitive Walkthrough for the Web - Blackmon, M.H., Polson, P.G., Kitajima, M. & Lewis, C
- Introduction To Cognitive Walkthroughs - Emma Tonkin
- Task-Centered User Interface Design: 4.1 Cognitive Walkthroughs - Clayton Lewis and John Rieman
- Two Simple But Effective Usability Inspection Techniques - Joanna Bawa
- User Assistance Walkthroughs: Helping Best Practices Emerge - Mike Hughes
- What is a Walkthrough? - Gerry Gaffney
Related Inspection Info
- Conducting a web site evaluation - cyberwriter.com
- Faceted Feature Analysis - Adam Polansky
- Guidelines
- Standards Inspections - James Hom
Testing
Participants (Users)
- Asking Participants to "Pretend" in User Studies - Jared Spool
- Avoiding Demographics When Recruiting Participants - Jared Spool
- Clustering for Usability Participant Selection - Juan E. Gilbert, Andrea Williams, and Cheryl D. Seals
- Don't Test Users, Test Hypotheses - Avi Soudack
- During a Usability Testing How do You Know If Users are Telling You the Truth? - John Rhodes
- Expert Usability Participants - Alastair Campbell
- First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users - Jakob Nielsen
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Number of Users
- Death. Taxes. And "The How Many Users?" Debate - Kath Straub
- Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations - Jakob Nielsen
- How Many Users Does it Take to Change a Web Site? - William Hudson
- Quantitative Studies - How Many Users to Test? - Jakob Nielsen
- Sample Size Oddities - Steve Baty
- Sample Sizes for Usability Tests: Mostly Math, Not Magic - Jim Lewis
- Test With Five Users - Jakob Nielsen
- The User is in the Numbers - Jeff Sauro
- Sample Size Calculator for a Completion Rate - Jeff Sauro
- Sample Size Calculator for Discovering Problems in a User Interface - Jeff Sauro, Formulae By James R. Lewis
- The More the Merrier? - Mariana Da Silva
- You Don't Need to Test a lot of Users to Obtain Meaningful Data: More Than 5 but Less Than Hundreds, Part 1 - Jeff Sauro
- You Don't Need to Test a lot of Users to Obtain Meaningful Data: More Than 5 but Less Than Hundreds, Part 2 - Jeff Sauro
- When 100% Really Isn't 100%: Improving the Accuracy of Small-Sample Estimates of Completion Rates - James R. Lewis and Jeff Sauro
- Why 'How Many Users' Is Just The Wrong Question - Rethinking The Requirements For Valid Usability Tests - Kath Straub
- Putting Perfect Participants in Every Session - Jared Spool
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Recruiting
- Finding the Right Users - Peter Merholz
- In-House Recruitment of Users for Research - Patrick Kennedy
- Not The Usual Suspects: How To Recruit Usability Test Participants - Elizabeth Neal
- Recruiting Test Participants for Usability Studies - Jakob Nielsen
- The Mystery of Recruiting - Lauren Lundgren and Tina Osinski
- Yes or No: Make your Recruiter Smarter - Dana Chisnell
- The Ultimate Testing Checklist - Shirley Kaiser
- Why Listening to Users Can Damage Your Website - David Unsworth
- Why We Call Them Participants - Dana Chisnell
- Why You Need to Test Your Web Site with Real Users - Lois Wakeman
Personas
- AD-HOC Personas and Empathetic Focus - Don Norman
- An introduction to personas and how to create them - Tina Calabria
- Building a Data-Backed Persona - Andrea Wiggins
- Building and Using Personas - Kevin Leitch
- Bring Your Personas to Life! - Zef Fugaz
- Customer Storytelling at the Heart of Business Success - Experience Planning Group, edited by Parrish Hanna
- Crappy Personas vs. Robust Personas - Jared Spool
- Creating Personas for Information-Rich Websites - Rashmi Sinha
- Developing User Personas - Emma Tonkin
- Example Personas - D. Keith Robinson
- Getting from Research to Personas: Harnessing the Power of Data - Kim Goodwin
- How Personas and Scenarios can Change your Website for the Better, part 1 - John Wood
- How Personas and Scenarios Can Change Your Website For The Better - Part 2 - John Wood
- How Site Personas Can Enhance Your Site - Paul Boag
- How to Create Effective Personas for Your Projects - Ron Akanowicz
- Key Steps in Creating Your Reader Persona - Gerry McGovern
- Making Personas More Powerful: Details to Drive Strategic and Tactical Design - George Olsen
- Making Personas Sparkle Like Diamonds, Part 1 - Bryan Eisenberg
- Making Personas Work for Your Web Site -- An Interview with Steve Mulder - Jared M. Spool
- Long Live the User (Persona): Talking with Steve Mulder - Liz Danzico, Steve Mulder
- Nice Research on Persona Effectiveness - IxDA Thread
- Persona Non Grata - Dan Saffer
- Persona Sketching - D. Keith Robinson
- Persona Templates - Todd Warfel
- Personas 99% Bad? - Peter Merholz
- Personas and the Advantage of Designing for Yourself - Joshua Porter
- Personas and the Customer Decision-Making Process - Henrik Olsen
- Personas and Persona Sketching - D. Keith Robinson
- Personas and User Feedback - Free Usability Advice
- Personas and User Profiles
- Personas are NOT a Document - Jared Spool
- Personas as Tools - Joshua Porter
- Personas For Content Development - D. Keith Robinson
- Personas, Goals, and Emotional Design - Robert Reimann
- Personas: Good Enough for Moses, Good Enough for Me - Dan Brown
- Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites - Alison J. Head
- Personas Suck - Andy Budd
- Personas: the Podcasts - Steve Mulder
- Personas vs. User Descriptions; Apples vs. Tomatoes - Jared Spool
- Personas: Matching a Design to the Users’ Goals - Christine Perfetti
- Personas of Persons with Disabilities - Christopher Phillips
- Practical Persona Creation - D. Keith Robinson
- Real or Imaginary -The Effectiveness of Using Personas in Product Design - Frank Long
- Squiggles Help Find Personas - Patrick Kennedy
- Ten Steps to Personas - Leone Nielsen
- The Persona Non Grata Article is a Gift. Really. - Tamara Adlin
- The Return on Investment (ROI) for Personas - Submitted by Ann Light
- Three Important Benefits of Personas - Jared M. Spool
- Too Fuzzy: Personas and Scenarios - Michael Andrews
- User Research for Personas and Other Audience Models - Steve Baty
- Using Persona Advocates to Develop User-Centric Intranets and Portals - Howard McQueen
- When Should You Use Personas? - Jared Spool
- Yes, You Should be Using Personas - Leisa Reichelt
Scenarios and Tasks
- Creating Tasks for Usability Tests - Free Usability Advice
- Impediments to Seeing Information as a Task - Gerry McGovern
- Improving your intranet, task by task - Tina Calabria
- Interview-Based Tasks - Learning from Leonardo DiCaprio - Jared M. Spool
- Scenarios in Practice - Paul McInerney, Michael J. Muller
- Selecting scenarios - Donna Maurer
- Task Analysis and Usability - Emma Tonkin
- Task-Free Usability Testing: Summary of UPA Seminar - Dan Brown
- Task Times in Formative Usability Tests - Jeff Sauro
- Tell me the story... The unifying role of scenarios in conceptual design - Kath Straub
- The Importance of Task Order Randomizing during a Usability Test - Jeff Sauro
- The Long Neck - Gerry McGovern
- Thinking Inside the Right Box: Developing Tasks for Usability Test Participants - Dana Chisnell
- Variability in User Performance - Jakob Nielsen
- Web's Key Management Metric: Task Completion - Gerry McGovern
- What is a Scenario?
- Writing Memorable Scenarios For Usability Testing - Donna Maurer
Related Testing Info
- 5 Ways to Get Usability Testing on the Cheap - Josh Catone
- 90% of All Usability Testing is Useless - Lane Becker
- A Bit of History of Usability Testing - and Why It's Not So Expensive Any More - Ginny Redish
- A Proposal for Evaluating Usability Testing Methods: The Practical Review System - John S. Rhodes
- A Review of Morae for Usability Testing - S. Shrestha
- A Usability Test of Web-based User Assistance - Matthew Ellison
- Authentic Behavior in User Testing - Jakob Nielsen
- Beginner’s Guide to Moderating a Usability Study - Kevin Cheng
- Behind the Mirror - Usability Testing Musings (Day One) - Chris Heilmann
- Browser Testing CSS and JavaScript - Roger Johansson
- Browser Testing List - Martin Burns
- Build a Cross Platform Web Design Testing Station - Paul Sciortino
- Business-to-Business (B2B) Usability - Jakob Nielsen
- Calculating Usability Effects - Kristoffer Bohmann
- CHI 2003 Feature: Testing... 1 2 3 4 5 ... Testing.. - Larry Constantine
- Cleaning Up For the Housekeeper Or Why It Makes Sense to do Both Expert Review and Usability Testing - Kathleen Straub
- Consensus on Observations in Real Time: Keeping a rolling list of issues - Dana Chisnell
- Conducting International Usability - Peter Merholz
- Cue: A Usability Testing Bake-Off - Jared Spool
- Details of a usability study - Interaction Design, Inc
- Discount Usability: Time To Push Back The Pendulum? - David Travis
- Discount user testing under fire - Ann Light
- Do All Web Sites Need Usability Testing? - D. Keith Robinson
- Effectively Testing Your Website in Multiple Browsers - Vandelay
- Eight Guidelines For Usability Testing - Tim Fidgeon
- Enticing Users with Content - Christine Perfetti
- Estimating of Testing the Plausible Way - Caroline Jarrett
- Evaluate existing system - UsabilityNet
- Expanding Usability Testing to Evaluate Complex Systems - Ginny Redish
- Experiences
in remote usability testing, Part 1 - Velda Bartek and Deane Cheatham
- Experiences in remote usability testing, Part 2 - Velda Bartek and Deane Cheatham
- Expert Usability Review vs. Usability Testing - Lisa Halabi
- Fast and Simple Usability Testing - Natalie Downe
- Five Techniques for Getting Buy-In for Usability Testing - Christine Perfetti
- Four Words to Improve User Research - Mark Hurst
- General Concepts of Usability Testing - James Hom
- Genetic A/B Testing with JavaScript - John Resig
- Getting Started with Usability Testing - Peter van Dijck
- Group Usability Testing: Evolution in Usability Techniques - Laura L. Downey
- Guide to Remote Usability Testing - Nate Bolt
- High-Tech vs. High-Touch: Some Limits of Automation in Diagnostic Usability Testing - J. Whiteside, J.L. Bennett and K. Holtzblatt
- Honda Website Gets Impromptu Test and Comes Out Poorly - Ann Light
- How Do We Perform Usability Testing When the Tasks are so Novel that Users Don't Even Know They Want to Perform Them? - Samuel A. Burns and J. Patrick Williams
- How Much Interaction is Too Much? - Clifford Anderson
- How (much) to Intervene in a Usability Testing Session - H. M. Tamer
- How to Do Usability Testing Cheap and Fast - Meryl Evans
- Inherent Value
Testing - Jared M. Spool
- Conducting Your Own Inherent Value Test - Jared M. Spool
- Investing in Usability: Testing versus Training - John S. Rhodes
- Is Usability Testing as We Know it About to Radically Change? - Susan Weinschenk
- Iterative Usability Testing as Continuous Feedback: A Control Systems Perspective - Alex Genov
- Leading Web Usability Evaluations to WAUTER - Sandrine Balbo, Steve Goschnick, and Derek Tong
- Location is Irrelevant for Usability Studies - Jakob Nielsen
- Looking for Love: Deciding What to Observe For - Dana Chisnell
- Low-Fi Usability Testing - Jeff Atwood
- Mobile and Handheld Usability Testing - Why It Matters - Tim Fidgeon
- Multiple-User Simultaneous Testing (MUST) - Jakob Nielsen
- Observer Effects in Usability Testing.. - John Sorflaten
- One Facilitator Good, Four Facilitators Better? - Caroline Jarrett
- Performance testing - UsabilityNet
- Performing Usability Testing - Kevin Leitch
- Pitting Usability Testing Against Expert Review - Kath Straub
- Practical Usability Testing - Joshua Kaufman
- Professional usability testing and return on investment as it applies to user interface design for web-based products and services - Charles Mauro
- Pros and Cons of Co-participation in Usability Studies - Chauncey Wilson
- Putting A/B Testing in Its Place - Jakob Nielsen
- Quantitatively Test the Effectiveness of Your Home Page - Iain Barker
- Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book - Dana Chisnell
- Ready, Set, Go: Usability Testing - Leanne Waldal
- Remote Usability Testing - Interno Tredici
- Remote Online Usability Testing: Why, How, and When to Use It - Dabney Gough and Holly Phillips
- Remote Usability Testing - Free Usability Advice
- Restoring Confidence in Usability Results - Jeff Sauro
- Seven Common Usability Testing Mistakes - Jared M. Spool
- Setting Up a Screen Reader Test Environment - Henny Swan
- Site Testing with Text Based Browsers - Jonathan Christopher
- Six Steps to Ensure a Successful Usability Test - Janice (Ginny) Redish
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Split A/B Testing - Lisa Halabi
- Which Design? An Introduction to Split A/B Testing - Lisa Halabi
- Statistically Analyzing Success Rates in Web Usability Testing: The Cochran's Q Test - Jamie Griffith
- Stop Calling it Usability Testing - Patrick Kennedy
- Suggested Reading for Usability Testing
- Techsmith's Morae 2.0 Ups the Ante for Usability Testing Software - David Travis
- Testing 123 - Julia Hayden
- Testing the Three-Click Rule - Josh Porter
- Testing Web Page Design Concepts for Usability - Dey Alexander and Derek Brown
- The Tao of Testing - Martin Burns
- The world is ready for usability. Is usability ready for the world? - Kath Straub
- Top Six Don'ts for Usability Testing - Jeff Sexton New!
- Two Sigma: Usability and Six Sigma Quality Assurance - Jakob Nielsen
- Two Simple Post-Test Questions - Jared Spool
- UI guidelines vs usability testing - Microsoft Corporation
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Unicorn
- Codename UniCORN - Jean-Guilhem Rouel and Damien Leroy
- Meet the Unicorn - Olivier Thereau
- Usability Test Facilitation Techniques - DeeDee DeMulling
- Usability Test for Success - Constance J. Petersen
- Usability Testing is Really Design Research - Iain Barker
- Usability Test Planning - DeeDee DeMulling
- Usability Testing - Constance Petersen
- Usability Testing: An introduction to usability testing - Matt Gullett
- Usability Testing: Be Sure to Test Content as Well as Navigation - Ginny Redish
- Usability Testing Best Practices: An Interview with Rolf Molich - Christine Perfetti
- Usability Testing is an Excellent Training Tool - Jared Spool
- User Testing Footage of header/id Combinations, summary and longdesc for HTML5 WG - Joshue O Connor
- User Testing is Not Entertainment - Jakob Nielsen
- Usability Testing. Oh, The Things You Can Learn - Jared Spool
- Usability Testing on the Cheap - Ned Batchelder
- Usability Testing Tools and Templates - Usability.gov
- Usability Testing: You Get What You Pay For - Deborah Mayhew
- Usability Testing for Findability - Donna Maurer
- Usability Tests with 30 Observers - Jared Spool
- Usability Testing with Children - Tim Fidgeon
- Usability Testing with Morae - Joel Spolsky
- User Testing: Empirical Studies in HCI
- Web Metrics: Don't be a Slave to the Next HIT - Gerry McGovern
- Website Evaluation Rubric - Denny Lancaster
- WebSite Testing (white paper) - Edward Miller
- Weekly User Testing: TiVo Did It, You Can, Too - Jakob Nielsen
- What is Usability Testing? - Gerry Gaffney
- When Getting the Job Done Isn't Enough.. - Kath Straub
- When Role Playing Doesn't Work: Seven Guidelines for Grounding Usability Testing in Participants' Real Lives - Isabelle Peyrichoux
Thinking Aloud
- Thinking Aloud Protocol - James Hom
- Methods for Successful "Thinking Out Loud" Procedures developed - Judy Ramey
- STC (Society for Technical Communication) Learning Session - Suman Kumar
Eyetracking
- An Eye-Tracking Sudy Delivers Eye-Grabbing Conclusions - David Walker
- Attentional Spotlighting in User Interfaces - Mike Rundle
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But
What Does It All Mean? Understanding eye-tracking results, Part 1 - Teresa
Hernandez
- But What Does It All Mean? Understanding eye-tracking results, Part 2 - Teresa Hernandez
- But What Does It All Mean? Understanding eye-tracking result, Part 3 - Teresa Hernandez
- But What Does It All Mean? Understanding eye-tracking results, Part 4 - Teresa Hernandez
- But What Does It All Mean? Understanding eye-tracking results, Part 5 - Teresa Hernandez
- CSS Zen Garden -- an Eyetools Eyetracking Analysis - Greg Edwards
- Directed Attention - Robert Stevens, Mashhuda Glencross, Roger Hubbold, and Caroline Jay
- Evaluating the Usability of Search Forms Using Eyetracking: A Practical Approach - Matteo Penzo
- Eyetools Eyetracking - Greg Edwards
- Eyetrack Is Not a Solution - Howard I. Finberg
- Eye Movement Patterns on Single and Dual-Column Web Pages - S. Shrestha and J. Owens
- Eyetracker Study gives Guidance on how to Place Ads, Etc - Ann Light
- Eye Tracking a Navigation Bar -- How many elements are read? Well, it depends. - Greg Edwards
- Eye Tracking as Silver Bullet for Usability Evaluations? - Mark
- Eye Tracking - Eye Candy vs. I Can Do - Mark McElhaw
- Eye Tracking in web search tasks: design implications - Joseph H. Goldberg, Mark J. Stimson, Marion Lewenstein, Neil Scott , Anna M. Wichansky
- Eyetracking of Forms: should we accept the Conclusions? - Caroline Jarrett
- Eyetracking Research and Forms Design - Formulate Information Design
- Eyetracking Studies: Usability Holy Grail? - Frank Spiller
- Eye Tracking Study Reveals 12 Website Tactics - directcreative
- Eye-Tracking Studies at Google - William Slawski
- Eyetracking Study of Web Readers - Jakob Nielsen
- Eyetracking: Worth The Expense? - Jared Spool
- F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content - Jakob Nielsen
- Five days: Dixons.co.uk - Etre
- Hotspots and Hyperlinks: Using Eye-tracking to Supplement Usability Testing - Mark C. Russell
- Introduction to Eyetracking: Seeing Through Your Users' Eyes - Matteo Penzo
- Show Me Eye Tracking - etre
- Small Decreases in Viewing Can Decrease the Probability of Being Clicked by More Than 50 Percent - eyetools
- Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online - Jakob Nielsen
- The Eyes Have It! - grokdotcom.com
- Using Eye-tracking Data to Understand First Impressions of a Website - M. Russell
- Using Eye Tracking to Compare Web Page Designs: A Case Study - Agnieszka Bojko
- You Won't See What You Don't Look At... - Kath Straub
Other Techniques
Affinity Diagrams (see Information Architecture)
Card Sorting (see Information Architecture)
Prototyping (see Information Architecture)
Wireframes (see Information Architecture)
Comprehensive Sites
- Usability Methods - Usability First
- Usability Methods Toolbox - James Hom. Contains 30 enties capsuling a broad spectrum of usability techniques
- Methods table - UsabilityNet
- Usability Resources - Gerry Gaffney
- Web Accessibility and Usability Evaluation Resource - Peter Rainger
Labs
- Accessibility Centers & Labs - Laura L. Carlson
- Capturing User Experience Closes the Feedback Loop - Jon Udell
- Is Lab Usability Dead? - Peter Merholz
- Laboratories With an HCI Focus in Companies, Universities and Other Organizations
- Lotus Usability lab Online Tour
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Setup Instructions for
Tapeless Usability Lab - Joel Aufrecht
- Instructions for Usability Testing - Joel Aufrecht
- The Minimal Lab - Gerry Gaffney
- The Usability Lab as Teaching Playground - Davis Marasco
- Top Research Laboratories in Human-Computer Interaction - Jakob Nielsen
- Usability Centers & Labs - Laura L. Carlson
- Usability Labs
- Why You Don't Need a Usability Lab - Elizabeth Neal
Metrics
- A Structured Process for Transforming Usability Data into Usability Information - Jonathan Howarth, Terence S. Andre, and Rex Hartson
- Are you Measuring the Right Things? - Gerry McGovern
- Are You Using the Wrong Web Metrics? - Gerry McGovern
- Are Your Website Metrics Reliable? - Gerry McGovern
- Always Crashing In The Same Car: Recurring Misuses Of Higher Education Web Sites - The User Feedback Myth - Rose Pruyne
- Confidence Interval Calculator for a Completion Rate (Task Completion Rate Calculator) - Jeff Sauro
- Confidence Interval for Task Times in Usability Tests (Task Time Calculator) - Jeff Sauro
- Data Visualization of Web Stats: Logarithmic Charts and the Drooping Tail - Jakob Nielsen
- Demystifying Data Analysis - Rachel Hinman
- Determining Usability from Analytics - Jared Spool
- Don't Trust Your Gut Instinct - Gerry McGovern
- Examples for Usability Metrics
- In Appreciation of Measures That Tell Stories - Alison J. Head
- Measuring Online Experience: It's About More Than Time! - Bonnie Lida Rogers
- Measuring Satisfaction: Beyond the Usability Questionnaire - David Travis
- Measuring the Usability of Reading on the Web - Jakob Nielsen
- Measuring User Experience - Pamela and Steve Ellis
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Metrics for
Heuristics - Andrea Wiggins
- Metrics for Heuristics: Quantifying User Experience, Part 2 - Andrea Wiggins
- Metrics That Make the Case for Quality Content - Gerry McGovern
- Outliers and Luck in User Performance - Jakob Nielsen
- Page Views are Obsolete - Evan Williams
- Prove the Value of Your Content With Numbers - Gerry McGovern
- Revitalizing SUS, the System Usability Scale - Jens Meiert
- Sample Size Calculator for Discovering Problems in a User Interface - Jeff Sauro, Formulae By James R. Lewis
- Samples and Stats - Lyle Kantrovich
- Severity ratings for usability problems - Jakob Nielsen
- SUM: Single Usability Metric (Presented at CHI 2005) - Jeff Sauro
- Time Budgets for Usability Sessions - Jakob Nielsen
- Usable Statistics - Jeff Sauro
- Usability Metrics by Jakob Nielsen
- Usability Metrics by John S. Rhodes
- Usabilty Test Data - David Travis
- Usability Test Data by Philip Hodgson
- User Performance Metrics - Kristoffer Bohmann
- What Counts: Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Design - Dana Chisnell
- Web Traffic Analytics and User Experience - Fran Diamond
- Web's Key Management Metric: Task Completion - Gerry McGovern
- What Metrics Can Do for You - Rick Craig
- What's Important to Measure on Your Website? - Gerry McGovern
- When Discount Usability Misleads Management - A Solution - John Sorflaten
- Writing Usability Requirements and Metrics - Janet M. Six
Reports
- A Structured Process for Transforming Usability Data into Usability Information - Jonathan Howarth, Terence S. Andre, and Rex Hartson
- Analysis, Plus Synthesis: Turning Data into Insights - Lindsay Ellerby
- Archiving Usability Reports - Jakob Nielsen
- Checkpoints For Reviewing Usability Test Reports - Based on the work of Julian Meltzoff
- Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Formal Usability Reports vs. Quick Findings - Jakob Nielsen
- Industry Usability Reporting
- How to Deliver a Report Without Getting Lynched - Bruce Tognazzini
- Making Usability Recommendations Useful and Usable - Rolf Molich, Robin Jeffries, Joseph Dumas
- Reader's Questions: Severity Scales - Chauncey Wilson
- Standards Update: Usability Test Reporting - David Travis
- Techniques for Analyzing and Reporting Usability Data - Chauncey Wilson
- Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports -Web Accessibility Initiative
- Towards the Design of Effective Formative Test Reports - Mary Theofanus and Whitney Quesenbery
- Usability Report Tips - Chauncey Wilson
- Usability Test Reports - Your Chance to Influence a New Standard - Caroline Jarrett
- Usability Testing Tools and Templates - Usability.gov
- What is the Common Industry Format? By Avi Parush and Emile Morse
- What is the Common Industry Format? By usabilitynet.org
- Writing Usability Reports - Gerry Gaffney
Articles & Related Links
- 10 Measures for Continuous Website Maintenance - Jens Meiert
- 13 Common Objections Against User Tequirements Analysis, and Why You Should Not Believe Them - Sim D'Hertefelt
- 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website - Lee Munroe
- A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Evaluating Design Alternatives - Jared M. Spool
- A "Requirements" Rope Trick - Chris Baker
- Acting on User Research - Jakob Nielsen
- Accessibility Tested Web Sites: Nokia vs. Sony Ericsson - Robert Nyman.
- Change It Up! - Mandy Lowey
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Competitive
Analysis, Part 1 - Dan Brown
- Competitive Analysis, Part 2 - Dan Brown
- Customer Focus: Getting to Truly Know Your Customers - Gerry McGovern
- Deconstructing Analysis Techniques - Steve Baty.
- Decision Models for Comparative Usability Evaluation of Mobile Phones Using the Mobile Phone Usability Questionnaire (MPUQ) - Young Sam Ryu, Kari Babski-Reeves, Tonya L. Smith-Jackson, and Maury A. Nussbaum
- Differentiating Your Design: A Visual Approach to Competitive Reviews - Michael Hawley
- Design Choices Can Cripple a Website - Nick Usborne
- Embracing the Un-Science of Qualitative Research Part One - Small Sample Sizes are Super - Leisa Reichelt
- Evaluation and Testing Books
- Evaluation of Websites for Older Adults: How 'Senior-Friendly' Are They? - By T. Hart
- Evaluating the Usability of Educational Websites for Children - S. Naidu
- Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility - Web Accessibility Initiative
- Extreme User Research - Daniel Lafreniere
- Find Out What Your Customer Really Needs From Your Website - Gerry McGovern
- Fast, Cheap, and Good: Yes, You Can Have It All - Jakob Nielsen
- Findings From the Web Design Survey, 2008 - A List Apart
- Formative Evaluation: A Practical Guide - Lisa Neal
- Future of Web Management is Evidence-Based - Gerry McGovern
- Getting the Right Measure of Usability - David Travis
- Giving Usability Methods the Critical Eye - Dan Brown
- How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design? - Paul J. Sherman
- Improving Customer Experience: Usability Testing Is Not Enough - Bonny Brown
- Inside Your Users' Minds: The Cultural Probe - Ruth Stalker-Firth
- Interaction Modeling - Matt Queen
- Judging Web Sites: Usability or Criticism? - Mark Bernstein
- Look Composed. How Visuals Can Draw and Drive Attention. - Kath Straub
- MIT Tops Rankings of University Web Sites - Steve Kolowich
- Making Decisions About User Research - Donna Spencer
- Project GOALS Evaluates 100 Pages in Higher Education for Accessibility against Section 508 Standard - National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) and WebAIM
- Requirements Analysis - Chris Baker
- Results of Online Usability Study of Apollo Program Websites - Tom Tullis
- Should Designers and Developers Do Usability? - Jakob Nielsen
- Start User Research by Talking With Staff - Patrick Kennedy
- Subjectivity and Objectivity in Practice - Steve Baty
- The Limitations of Server Log Files for Usability Analysis - Karl Groves
- The Secret of Managing a Successful Website - Gerry McGovern
- The Top 3 Priorities of the Talking Horse - Jared M. Spool
- The Tyranny of Evaluation - Henry Lieberman
- Testing Adobe's Online PDF to HTML Conversion Tool - Ted Page
- Toward Content Quality - Colleen Jones
- Usability Studies and the Hawthorne Effect - Ritch Macefield
- Use Cases and Interaction Design - Henrik Olsen
- Use Scenarios and Use Cases - Celeste Lyn Paul
- Using Research to End Visual Design Debates - Nick Myers
-
User Research Smoke and Mirrors, Part 1: Design vs. Science - Christopher
Fahey
- User Research Smoke and Mirrors, Part 3: Research as a Design Tool - Christopher Fahey
- User Research Smoke and Mirrors, Part 3: Research as a Political Tool - Christopher Fahey
- User-Centered Design (UCD) - 6 Methods - Tim Fidgeon
- User-Centred Redesign of the FaCS Intranet - Donna Maurer
- User Experience Analysis - Jesse James Garrett
- User Research Doesn't Prove Anything - Steve Baty
- Web Site Tune-up: 8 Quick Checkups - Joe Dolson
- Web Site Usability 101 - Laura L. Carlson
- What Goes into a Well-Done Critique - Jared M. Spool
- What Happens After Customer Research? - Mark Hurst
- When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods - Jakob Nielsen
- Response: Why Readability Testing is not Enough - Matthew Goddard
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