About Usability Testing
Usability
Testing
is best
thought of as a combination of psychology and ergonomics. Usability
Testing can be done on many different things, eg.
mobile phones, coffee machines, or user interfaces, and has the
following requirements:
- Collection of firsthand data in a one-on-one situation
- An experienced moderator
When is Usability Testing Used on Web Sites?
Usability Testing is used for site assessment
and verification, either at the story-board stage,
or on an electronic version of a site. Usability Testing sessions
are task oriented and produce
results which show what users do
with
your site, rather that what they may say about it. Basically, as Jakob
Nielsen (the universally recognised Guru of web usability)
maintains, there is only one valid way to gather usability
data: observe real
users as they use your site to accomplish real tasks.
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