Category: User Experience
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Why You Want to Use Longitudinal Studies for Your Product Testing
The longitudinal study is a powerful tool for testing your product and learning about your users. Here are some examples of why you might use longitudinal studies. User testing tends to be single-serving research. Whether it’s remote, unmoderated testing or an in-person moderated session, user testing tends to span a short period and gather a…
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4 Reasons NOT to Use Polished Prototypes in Early Usability Testing
Your usability testing might be negatively affected by an overly polished prototype. In our current age of prototyping tools, it’s cheaper and easier than ever to create beautiful, clickable prototypes for usability testing. It is now feasible to sit your very first usability test participants in front of a fully interactive prototype that looks and…
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Now is the Time to Try Adobe XD… and Make it Better
Adobe recently made its UX design and prototyping tool free to use. Now is a great time to help shape Adobe XD into the tool it needs to be. As you may have already heard, Adobe announced a free version of Adobe XD, their UX design and prototyping tool for web and mobile applications. The move…
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Google Fixes Some Problems with Material Design
Google moves Material Design from a design language to a flexible design system and address some longstanding issues. It was not a surprise that Google had announcements about Material Design at the Google I/O 2018 developer conference. Hints, clues, and evidence pointed to a mild “refresh” of the four-year-old design language. And the internet talks…
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When a Failed A/B Test is Still a Success
If the current design beats the new design in an A/B test (a.k.a “split test”), the experiment is called a failure. But it’s the best kind of failure there is. Let’s say you have an idea that you think will work. You try that idea out… and find out that no, it doesn’t work. In…
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User Experience Article Roundup – Better Personas and Fast Research
Read our User Experience Article Roundup: UX rules, bold design, perspective on personas, and other articles and resources from the user experience world. The 15 Rules Every UX Designer Should Know An easy-to-read mix of rules, principles, and suggestions for anyone who makes products for users. #2 is “Know your audience” and #3 is “You…
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6 Reasons Why The Chrome Link Underline Change is Not So Hot
Google embraced a new CSS text property and made it the default Chrome link underline style in its Chrome browsers. This may not have been the right move. A few months ago, I was looking at a web page (minding my own business) when I noticed that the links looked odd to me. They were…
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What is a Longitudinal Study in Software User Testing?
If a regular user test gives you a snapshot, then a longitudinal study provides you with a time-lapse video. If you want a not-clever mnemonic for remembering what makes a test “longitudinal”, just focus on the word “long”. A longitudinal study (or longitudinal testing) is a type of research that collects data from the same…
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A Harrowing Tale of User Acceptance Testing
My first encounter with user acceptance testing will scare you straight. Recently, I wrote an article about user acceptance testing (UAT) and was reminded of my very first encounter with validation testing on a software project. Here is that story as I remember it. WARNING: You may want to skip this story if the thought of wasted…
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User Acceptance Testing (UAT): What It Is, and What It Shouldn’t Be.
If you read one article describing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), you’ll walk away with a solid understanding of what it’s all about. If you read 5 or more articles, you might just wind up confused. That’s because “User Acceptance Testing” is one of those annoyingly overloaded terms that means different things to different organizations. Now,…
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