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Five Secrets to Writing a Great Remote Usability Test
With the advent of remote usability testing services such as TryMyUI and others just about anyone can create a usability test in minutes and have it performed by a user somewhere in the world in a matter of hours. The can receive a video of the users screen and his voice [...]
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5 Tips on Designing a Better Event Website
Cass Phillipps is a Bay Area event organizer extraordinaire. If you’re a start-up or entrepreneur, you’ve likely attended an event where she was the behind-the-scene force to make it all come together: FailCon, SF MusicTech Summit, Inside Social Apps to name a few. One of the reasons why Cass is so good is because she [...]
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Prototypes, Wireframes and Live Site — Oh My!
That’s right! We rolled out some cool new features. Check them out, and let us know what you think.
Prototypes & Wireframes
When creating a new test in TryMyUI, you can now specify if the test is for a live site, prototype or wireframe. We will instruct the users accordingly to set their expectations. [...]
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Using TryMyUI and Loop11 in Tandem to Obtain Quantitative and Qualitative Measures
Improving website usability is consistently a challenge for companies – whether a startup or a large enterprise. There’s a plethora of information and healthy debate on what user experience research methods should be used and when. When it comes to quantitative versus qualitative research, best practices suggest a mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches [...]
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Customer Spotlight: Andy Shield – Director of User Experience, Red Bullet UK
We learn so much from our customers, and wanted to pass on the goodness. We recently checked in with Andy Shield, founder of Red Bullet, a research-led web development agency based in the UK. Andy lives and breathes usability research, and uses OpenHallway (TryMyUI’s sister company). Thanks for your perspective, Andy!
What’s the best part [...]
TryMyUI and OpenHallway give away $140,000 of usability testing in sponsorship if UXLX conference
The remote usertesting services TryMyUI and OpenHallway are sponsoring the UX-LX conference and are giving away $140,000 worth of remote usability testing to approximately 500 conference attendees. OpenHallway is donating 1 year of service valued at $228 and TryMyUI is giving away two remote user tests valued at $50 for each attendee. Attendees can claim [...]
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TryMyUI and OpenHallway are proud to sponsor UX-LX in Lisbon this summer
If you interested in usability and can make it to Lisbon this summer we highly recommend you attend the phenomenal UX-LX three day usability conference. This conference has something for everyone in the user experience field. The event will feature workshops in three tracks: Research, Design, and Strategy; as well as talks by such experts [...]
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Compelled Shopping Test
At Bolt Peter’s User Research Friday conference today Jared Spool talked about a test I had never heard of before. He called it the Compelled Shopping Test.
When I first heard the premise I must admit it made absolutely no sense to me!
Here is how it works…
You recruit test users for testing a shopping site who [...]
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Dana Chisnell at B|P User Research Friday – Research in a Social Context
Usability Testing in a Social Context
Dana Chisnell gave a great talk today at Bolt Peters User Research Friday. Her observation was that almost all activities on the web occur in a social context that spills out far beyond the particular product being tested.
Studies that don’t account for the social context are broken
Dana put together a [...]
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Customer Spotlight: Woolik.com and DIY User Testing