UIE Virtual Seminar - The Quick, the Cheap, and the Insightful: Conducting Usability Tests in the Wild
With Dana Chisnell of Usabilityworks
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Time: 1pm ET
It’s not clear when “quick and dirty” became a dirty phrase in the usability world. There are those that believe that testing must be scientific, and that takes time [...]

In this week’s podcast, Brian Christiansen and I continue exploring usability techniques for web-based applications.
This week, we explore the usability technique toolbox, focusing on those methods that help us with web-based applications.

 

 Usability Tools Podcast: Useful Web App Usability Techniques, Part 2 [21:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Statistical significance revolves around having enough participants to make your findings valid. However, the number of participants necessary can vary widely, depending on what you’re studying and how. Join us for a podcast that will help you understand how to make this determination for your projects.

 

 Usability Tools Podcast: Statistical Significance [26:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Using player cards as visual reminders of your personas and the people you met during field studies is a great way to help keep your users at the forefront of your design team’s thoughts. Here’s a rough guide on how to create them.

A number of our customers and podcast listeners ask us where we get our audio transcriptions done. We are using CastingWords, a company who takes a very Web 2.0 angle on producing transcripts.

Kate Gomoll is president and founder of Gomoll Research & Design. Back in March, we hosted Kate for a UIE Virtual Seminar on Field Studies, and recorded a followup podcast. We thought Kate’s insights were so useful that we’ve decided to share them with all of our SpoolCast listeners.

 

 Kate Gomoll Interviewed by Jared Spool: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

UIEtips 6/05/07: Field Research Fundamentals: An Interview with Kate Gomoll UIE’s Ashley McKee has conducted an excellent interview with Kate Gomoll, a recognized Field Research expert. In the interview, Kate shares how she and her team at Gomoll Research & Design conduct field studies.

iRise, who produces a product development tool that many of our clients find extremely helpful, is trying to make their tool even more helpful. Peter Indelicato, Senior Product Manager for iRise, is looking for folks to participate in some site visits.