8
votes
6answers
295 views

How can I make these links more obvious to click on?

I'm working on a website redesign for a dental laboratory. While testing the home page with a user, they never clicked on the links in the subnavigation. They clicked on the larger buttons in the ...
7
votes
5answers
211 views

Metrics for measuring user engagement for web applications

Unlike business and e-commerce sites, web applications don't necessarily have an end-goal or target for users to achieve. What are some metrics that can be used to measure how 'engaged' users are with ...
0
votes
1answer
67 views

Records mouse activity and suggest topics of interest? [closed]

Is there any way to collect users mouse activity in browser? I need this information, so as I can suggest some topics which user might be interested in. I am planning to gather some information over ...
3
votes
2answers
298 views

Enterprise Social User Interview Questions?

I am in the process of creating a questionnaire for user interviews for a HUGE Enterprise Social Initiative where the end product is going to be an Intranet/ESocial application.I am trying to get some ...
12
votes
4answers
391 views

A/B Testing Technique

My friend and I were having a discussion about different ways of A/B testing. His technique was to make a single small change (e.g. changing the colour of a button) and then perform A/B Testing to see ...
4
votes
2answers
129 views

What's the best way to navigate from between two screens in an App?

What's the best way to navigate from between two screens in an App? I'm writing an app which essentially consists of 2 screens of content, each displaying different type of news. I'm having a really ...
23
votes
15answers
1k views

Should personal data be asked at the beginning or end of an online survey

Given a 10-step online survey (mostly yes/no radio buttons), where is it best to ask for the users' personal data e.g. name, age, contact details? My intuition says putting it at the end will yield ...
0
votes
3answers
73 views

Free Trial Registration abandonment and resume

Dealing with a free-trial registration that REQUIRES a billing page, unfortunatelty (Credit Card info). There are 3 steps to this registration: Account registration Billing Confirmation - tell us ...
-1
votes
1answer
96 views

Should we stop using “Home” in navigation? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Home button vs Logo link? The following must be true for most (if not all) websites: Clicking the logo or website name leads to the homepage (/index.html). But the ...
4
votes
4answers
177 views

Banner Blindness on Non-Profit Web Site With Zero Ads

I am currently considering a page structure that would include a video. The context of the page is it is a kind of landing page meant to provide access to informational and educational materials ...
4
votes
2answers
725 views

Most useful survey questions for user research?

In your experience, what are the most important questions to ask in a survey for a product redesign? Direct interaction with users is prohibited by my organization, but I have been allowed to conduct ...
7
votes
3answers
248 views

How to document user interviews

What are the best practices to document interviews with users - do you just document the conclusions and take aways or do you do a full transcript or both?
4
votes
3answers
280 views

“Here will be your logo” - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?

"Here will be your logo" - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website? We are a company offering free demo of client's website, before going for a deal. Although, the ...
1
vote
1answer
175 views

Loading Times / Breaking points

We all know that a user is not going to wait forever for a website to load. Given there are certain factors and circumstances that can apply to this, is there a breakdown of users stages/breaking ...
2
votes
2answers
204 views

Best methods to find users for in-person user testing? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to recruit user test participants? There are a number of new tools available to conduct automated, oftentimes remote user testing (Treejack, Chalkmark, etc.). ...
2
votes
3answers
237 views

How to determine Internet usage experience

How much experience a web site visitor has with Internet usage could help us decide what structure, functionality and design we should focus on. If the target group is novice users we need to build ...
7
votes
7answers
711 views

How to measure self reported computer proficiency? Ideally with one item

For a usability test, I'd like to have a simple measure for computer proficiency, to be able to see, whether it has an impact on successfully handling the tasks. How can we best measure that? A ...