Comprises multiple methods for gaining insight into user needs and behaviours from real end users.
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What is the best approach to design registration page
I have seen users (including me) who get frustrating registration page and eventually decide to quit the site. (To be frank few of my friends left registration due to annoying captca verification) As ...
3
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0answers
33 views
How can I learn A/B testing independently? [closed]
I'm looking for an independent project to learn A/B testing on, and I'm trying to figure out which A/B testing tools are commonly used for:
Mobile
Games
Web
And I'm also aware that the common ...
0
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0answers
21 views
Best practices for attracting users to a new social media based site [closed]
Hi guys I was wondering if you can share with us, some tips on how to get traction to a new social media website which is only attractive when it has a lot of users that share content?
Making a beta ...
6
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2answers
111 views
How to use paper prototyping on an existing product
Paper prototyping is a very powerful tool early on in a new product build as it helps you to iron out ux and rapidly iterate.
However if you're working on an existing product and want to test small ...
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7answers
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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 ...
4
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2answers
91 views
Can SUS scores be used for comparison between different systems?
The System Usability Scale (SUS) resulted score seem to me as somewhat subjective. What ever score yields from a questionnaire for System A may just solely be just for System A, and is difficult to ...
4
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3answers
144 views
Cameras for Paper Prototyping
I help manage a small usability lab. One of the things we're trying to is to record paper prototyping sessions - with a user sitting at a table and a camera directly overhead (from a height of about ...
3
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2answers
52 views
In usability testing, what consensus from users is enough to throw out an idea in future iterations?
I am in the midst of adding about 100 images to one of my current projects after completing a round of usability testing on a low/medium fidelity prototype yesterday. I included ideas for 4 pages in ...
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2answers
52 views
How to analyse the result of a focus group which has given highly diverse opinions
I was involved in a recent focus group study where we had six different requests from the users about what they wanted in the site (And all six are different and dont really have any correlation with ...
3
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3answers
163 views
Should Focus Group interviews include people of different stakeholder categories?
I was told by a friend that when conducting focus groups to gather information for needfinding for a design, I should avoid grouping different stakeholders together into a single group.
This got me ...
4
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1answer
66 views
Hungriness chart - where to find?
So, I have a funny, border-UX question...
My friend will have a wedding soon. I'm the best man or whatever it's called - organizer.
We'll have some users called guests. Some will travel a long way ...
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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 ...
5
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2answers
183 views
Is domain name important for user experience?
Is it important for the domain of a website to be chosen so that it is simple to type?
For example, consider delicious-dot-ly (delicious.ly).
Would it be fair to say that the difficulty of typing ...
7
votes
5answers
214 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 ...
3
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3answers
105 views
Brief and effective way to present usability study results
I am looking for a great template to create usability study results document without putting anyone to sleep. I have created plenty of them before but would like to see if there is something better ...
13
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6answers
279 views
Should usability testing of a competitor's website be a part of your usability testing routine?
I was reading up on best practices on usability testing for websites and a recommendation was that get your participants to do usability testing on your competitors website as well as that would help ...
5
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2answers
293 views
How do you handle not being allowed to do stakeholder interviews?
I was recently hired for one of my first new projects and have been interviewing stakeholders. I got through the interviews with other people who work for the client, with no problems. However, the ...
98
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16answers
4k views
How to discover what users NEED and not what they WANT?
I have been thinking a lot about my favorite quote from Henry Ford:
If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'Faster Horses'. -Henry Ford
The trouble I have been having is that ...
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votes
1answer
46 views
What are some tips for doing “over the shoulder” research? [closed]
I'm going to start doing some over-the-shoulder research with our users. I.e. where I watch them going about their work while using our app. Any tips, tricks or links on how to do it?
1
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1answer
83 views
Will it be better for making call-for-action buttons in warm colors?
Are there any A/B test/ statistics results revealing whether using warm color buttons is generally better than cold color buttons in UI? (despite the concern for the theme color of the brand)
9
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6answers
988 views
Floppy disk icon for “Save” [closed]
It's funny that we still use floppy disks icon for save operation association while floppies have long been outdated, unused and many computer users nowadays don't even know how floppy disks actually ...
21
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4answers
705 views
Display comments order - best practice
I wonder what is the best comments order on the website. I assume there are two major methods to display comments:
from newest to oldest,
from oldest to newest.
Facebook uses method one and ...
3
votes
2answers
63 views
Phrasing of diary study prompts to get more user insight
I am in the process of designing a diary study to investigate the interaction between a current software application and its users. I am seeking open-ended data and insights from users that I might ...
8
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6answers
314 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 ...
1
vote
1answer
71 views
Installing recording software
On an upcoming visit to a user's place of work, I would like to have them install Morae Recorder beforehand. This is likely to be a problem for the user's IT Security people. In the past, especially ...
3
votes
2answers
60 views
How do you test the credibility of a community advice site?
I am looking for standardised techniques or question sets that can be used to test the value, credibility or trustworthiness of a community advice site.
In particular, I'm interested in testing ...
11
votes
3answers
401 views
Should I ask for demographic information in a survey at the end or beginning? [duplicate]
I'm conducting a survey, and will ask for demographic information, e.g., gender, age, level of education, frequency of computer use. Should I ask users for this information at the beginning of the ...
1
vote
2answers
66 views
For landing page A/B testing, how do you recruit from a niche market?
I'm currently working with a client that has not launched the full website yet, but is A/B testing ads to drive member acquisition. The ads direct users to a landing page that collects user e-mails. ...
12
votes
4answers
606 views
What evidence is there that users lose interest after 7 seconds?
'7 seconds' is often trotted out as the maximum amount of time you get to impress someone when they land on your website. Where does this figure come from, and has the rule ever been proven?
Edit: ...
3
votes
3answers
74 views
Are there standard metrics to gauge content quality?
One aspect of user experience in a software application or website is the quality of the content presented to the user. It probably comes as no surprise that if the quality of the content is low/poor, ...
4
votes
3answers
91 views
Are there standard metrics to gauge process complexity?
One aspect of user experience in a software application or website is the complexity of the processes involved in completing a user task/goal. It probably comes as no surprise that if the steps ...
4
votes
2answers
97 views
User reaction on different form of advertisements
I am planning of creating a free software in upcoming months. I also wants to monetize my advertise my software by different forms of advertisements. These are:
A) PPC advertisement on web site : ...
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votes
3answers
75 views
A/B or multi-variate testing as replacement for UX design?
It seems like in a business-driven organization (i.e. where the sales and marketing team has a bigger say) that offer software products or services, A/B testing is used as a way to improve and measure ...
4
votes
3answers
130 views
What is the rationale for the design of search input fields?
Having read through a whole bunch of literature on search behaviour and looking at different design patterns, I am interested in the large variation of search input field on the web. Specifically, I ...
1
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0answers
64 views
Dyslexia friendly colors for wider audience? [closed]
I have met few dyslexic people and asked them about their reading style.
Some of them said that typing on black key board with white writing is easier for them, it helps them identify the shape of ...
9
votes
2answers
218 views
How to conduct user research in a highly constrained environment with private/protected data?
I work in health care and am trying to establish some practices and protocols for conducting user research on physicians. However, the health care industry has some constraints that make user research ...
1
vote
2answers
65 views
Adding restrictions vs. adding options
I'm working on a b2b marketplace that is completely free as of yet but I'd like, in the near future, to give users the option of purchasing a premium account of some sort.
What I want to know here is, ...
2
votes
2answers
102 views
What is the most important UX considerations that could be answered by statistics gathering (list)? [closed]
I am trying to figure out what types of things are best tested in my website(s), phone apps, or programs. These need to be things that can actually be measured. Which information is most useful to ...
3
votes
2answers
301 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 ...
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 ...
10
votes
3answers
307 views
What to do when client can't afford user research?
I feel most experts would agree with me when I say "User research is king". You can't know how your users will react to a product until you ask them.
That said, some clients are on tighter budgets ...
3
votes
3answers
133 views
Developer with HCI background studying graphic design
I'm thinking about going to design school for a year, studying graphic design.
I want to get work as a UX designer/researcher, with the possibility of day to day activities like user research, user ...
5
votes
1answer
226 views
What is a good tool for mouse tracking? [closed]
I would like to be able to track user activity on an HTML page.
What I want to achieve is the following, a breakdown of user activity per page, and a total time spent on the entire flow.
The ...
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votes
2answers
79 views
Formal or cartoon-like website [closed]
Think about two websites related to research work. One is:
http://www.tnsglobal.com/who-we-are
and the other is
http://www.conento.com.tr/EN/
I really wonder how many people like the first one ...
3
votes
6answers
158 views
What's the best way to conduct user research at a trade show?
I've tried a couple of times to perform usability studies at an industry-specific trade show, and it's been largely awkward. In my experience, people are milling around and love to chat, but don't ...
4
votes
3answers
151 views
How to wireframe an efficient UI when the project manager refuses to spend time to conduct user research?
I often have to face this situation. I'm asked to wireframe UIs without having any information about the final users (their profiles, needs, preferences, and key tasks).
First, I usually study ...
5
votes
1answer
376 views
Is there a generally accepted template for user requirements on a UX design project?
In one of my projects, user surveys are about to complete and my next tasks are creating the personas and generating the user requirements document. Since this is one of my first UX projects, my ...
12
votes
4answers
392 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 ...
4
votes
1answer
57 views
Existing user research for the freelancer?
What do you do when the users in your persona are relatively unavailable to you for testing out elements of a website? Is there existing research out there for the preferences of common user groups, ...
