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New features on trymyui.com
Responding to your requests, we’ve added a couple of nifty features on trymyui.com.
Autosaved notes
A couple of you had the unpleasant experience that if you rated a use test without saving your notes, the notes window would disappear, causing you to lose your notes. Our bad - that was a design flaw. As penance, we’ve double-fixed [...]
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Impression Testing
The five-second test (clueapp, fivesecondtest) is a very simple method for capturing a user’s first impressions about the website. We did a few experiments with this test on various websites (some ours, some not). In our experiments, five seconds was really not much time to register a value proposition – it was just enough [...]
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Providing a free test and asking for a credit card…
We provide a free test for new users. However, we do ask that the user have a valid credit card. Although we don’t charge the credit card (we simply make sure it’s valid), a couple of our prospective customers have been upset that we ask for a credit card at all. We agree that in [...]
The One-Minute Usability Guide
Those of us old enough to remember the one-minute manager appreciate this effort from David Travis of UserFocus. It’s a fun read.
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More on the ideal user
When most people think of performing usability testing, they think of using novices to see if the website is apparent to someone with very little experience. However, having now reviewed several hundred use tests done by both novice and experienced internet users, we’ve realized that both yield interesting information. Of course, the novice user is [...]
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Updated usability demographics