Tag: user testing
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Test Anything! See some recent examples of our beta tests.
We’ve run a lot of tests recently across a wide range of industries and products, and wanted to share some of them to highlight how you can test anything with our platform and community: đź“ş a streaming media device with testers across the US 📱 a small business CRM and business phone line app for…
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Jira Integrations are now live!
We’ve been getting this request for a long time and it’s finally live! BetaTesting is integrated with Jira to push bugs from your tests directly into your Jira Server or Jira Cloud account. It’s simple to map fields from our bugs to various fields in your Jira account, such as title, description, priority level, attachments,…
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3 Ways to Screw Up Your MVP After Its Release
When your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is successfully released, you can still screw things up. Here’s how to avoid squandering your MVP and messing up your full product. The best possible start Let’s paint a picture where your startup has done everything right, from concept through first release. You identified a customer problem—a need—and envisioned…
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When Well-Meaning UI Text Makes Things Less Usable
If you want users to successful, it helps to know how users actually read your UI text (spoilers: they don’t), and how more text can ruin everything. A real-life example of well-meaning UI text making things worse Years ago, I joined a large desktop application project as the lead designer, taking over for another vendor.…
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Real-Life Lessons from Design Testing Failures
Whether you’re a startup or a mature corporation, you should user-test new features and UI designs. Sometimes design testing will end in failure, but you can learn from your mistakes, as well as others’. Here are some lessons learned from real-life design testing failures. When you redesign your product, you do it to satisfy your…
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Try a 5 Second Test to See if Your UI Design Makes the Right Impression
If your visual design needs to make a specific impression on your users, don’t rely on your project team’s assessment of the UI. Try this quick 5 second test with actual users to confirm your brand goals are being achieved. Is your product strategy dependent on achieving a specific initial brand impression? There might be…
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When Beta Testing, Verify Brand Experience at the End
When beta testing your app or website with real users, you’ll want to save your brand experience questions for the end of the session. Here’s why. What are your users’ impressions of your product? How do they feel about it? Do they think of your product as fun? Corporate? Simple? Friendly? etc.? These types of…
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How to Find Beta Testers for Small Business Software
There are many benefits to beta testing your small business software before final release. Beta testing helps you test key processes and performance, get feedback on UX (User Experience) and UI (User Interface), identify bugs, and verify that your ideas are well-received. It’s always ideal to test your product with users that match your target…
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User Experience Article Roundup – Alternative User Research and Growing as a Designer
In this edition of User Experience Article Roundup: free user research alternatives, inspiration from a subway map, what happens when robots sound human, and more. Cheap and free under-the-radar alternatives to field visits It’s vital to understand your users, particularly when it comes to the context in which they use your product. Site visits with…
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MORE Reasons to Use a Longitudinal Study to Test Your App
Here are more examples of insights that a longitudinal study can provide about your web or mobile application and its users, to help you improve your user experience and increase profitability. Earlier this month, I revisited longitudinal studies and provided a number of specific-ish examples of valuable insights you might gain from running one. To refresh…
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