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Passionate about creating great software. User Experience advocate. Agile fanatic. Testing bigot.


Oct
6
awarded  Nice Answer
Oct
4
comment Unexpected A/B testing results
"With 250 users in an A/B test it’s fair to say it’s more than enough to trust your results" - I'm sorry, but you're 100% wrong there. A/B testing is very different from usability testing. You're not trying to spot errors and failures, you're testing two solutions to see which works better. There are well accepted statistical measures for this sort of problem and these numbers are not significant.
Oct
4
answered Unexpected A/B testing results
Oct
3
answered Should my app send a confirmation email on user registration?
Oct
3
comment What is the usual way to specify a GUI?
I'd kinda disagree (slightly). Communicating Design is a great book - but it's a book about deliverables/documentation. There are other ways to communicate design (e.g. when we work with other designers we don't generally produce lots of artefacts to communicate...)
Oct
2
answered What is the usual way to specify a GUI?
Sep
25
awarded  Citizen Patrol
Sep
22
answered Collecting testing recruits without using a recruiting firm
Sep
22
answered What is the difference between site objectives and business requirements?
Sep
17
answered How to document user interviews
Sep
15
comment How can I communicate linear progress through a series of states with color?
++ to @Alex's answer. Colour alone is not enough of a cue for all the reasons mentioned. Hue won't work well either. You're a designer. You're good at spotting hue differences. Most people are not.
Sep
15
comment using iframe in modal window good or bad?
So - why pop out? Does it matter to that particular user that they need to add an address? Is it a different flow to them? Could it be inlined into their existing process?
Sep
14
comment using iframe in modal window good or bad?
So the reason for the modal is that the add address sequence looks different from the flow that they're in?
Sep
14
comment How can I measure why users never return to a web app?
You said new users weren't coming back. If you test with users that are coming back you may not see the problem :-)
Sep
13
comment using iframe in modal window good or bad?
So the problem that causes you to think of a popup is that the "adding an address" UI looks different?
Sep
12
answered How can I measure why users never return to a web app?
Sep
12
answered using iframe in modal window good or bad?
Sep
12
answered How do I best tell a user that his/her account will be locked if they enter the wrong credentials too many times?
Sep
3
answered How should one prepare when doing a UX presentation to non-practitioners?
Sep
2
answered Price ranges vs concrete price for 3rd party vendors