Usability Tools Podcast
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Sinopsis
Jared Spool discusses tips and tools for improving your site's user experience with Christine Perfetti and Brian Christiansen. They share someone UIE's most important findings from our decades of research on web design and usability.
Episodios
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Moderating Usability Tests, Part 2
22/07/2008 Duración: 34minIn this episode of Usability Tools, Brian Christiansen and I continue on how to moderate a usability test.
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Moderating Usability Tests, Part 1
07/07/2008 Duración: 33minIn this episode of Usability Tools, Brian Christiansen and I talk about how to moderate a usability test. Turns out, the episode got so long that we decided to break it into two parts. This week's show focuses upon the different roles a single moderator needs to take on during the session.
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Applying Fitts’ Law
28/02/2008 Duración: 14minA button is a button right? Move the mouse over it. Click. Not much to it, eh? Well, when it’s a well-designed button, all the work your brain is doing to click the button is invisible to you. However, when it’s poorly designed, things start to become harder. Maybe you overshoot the target area? Or maybe you have trouble clicking because the button is too small. Often its not difficult to recover, but it costs attention and attention is expensive. In this week’s podcast, we discuss the implications of Fitts’ Law. In short, the law states, “The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.”
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Successful Web App Usability Techniques, Part 2
13/02/2008 Duración: 21minIn 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.
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Successful Web App Usability Techniques, Part 1
07/02/2008 Duración: 16minIn this week's podcast, Brian Christiansen and I explore usability techniques for web-based applications. Web-based applications are different from content-based web sites because the users are involved in a transaction. When we're researching the usability of a content-based site, we're focused on how users will find and react to the information. However, with web-based applications, there are many other considerations that we need to account for. Because this is a big topic, we've divided it into two podcasts. In Part 1, Brian and I lay down the framework for what our usability research needs to tell us about our web-based application. In Part 2, will look at the techniques for finding that information.
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Mouseovers in Navigation
17/12/2007 Duración: 24minIt's tempting to spend a ton of time creating slick flyout, dropdown, or pop-up navigation on our site, but is it worth the effort? This week, Brian Christiansen and I discuss interactive mouseover techniques for navigation. Are they a good idea when it comes to actually using your site? Based on our testing, we don’t think so.
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Avoiding Redesigns
03/12/2007 Duración: 13minThis week, we discuss avoiding redesigns. When we talk about avoiding redesigns, we don’t think your should stay anchored in the past, far from it. But we think the best route to change is through incremental deployment.
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On-Site Search
26/11/2007 Duración: 20minIn this week's episode, Brian Christiansen and I discuss the experience of on-site search engines, how to tell if yours is working well, and how to improve it.
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Robust Personas
21/11/2007 Duración: 35minThis week, we follow up our Virtual Seminar presentation on Building Robust Personas In 30 Days or Less, with answers to more questions that were generated during the session. You needn't have attended the seminar to learn from this podcast, though.
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Statistical Significance
22/10/2007 Duración: 26minStatistical 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.
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Are There Users Who Always Search?
09/10/2007 Duración: 20minIn the design world, there’s always been an assumption that some users demonstrate “search-dominant” tendencies by going right to the search engine when they first visit a web site looking for content. But back in 2000, UIE made a groundbreaking claim that blew away the web design world. From our research, we concluded that users aren’t Search dominant. How does this effect your design choices?
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Interview-Based Tasks for Usability Testing
01/10/2007 Duración: 29minIn usability tests where we incorporate interview-based tasks, the participants interests are discovered, not assigned. Unlike traditional task design methods, the test facilitator and participant negotiate the tasks during the tests, instead of proceeding down a list of predefined tasks. There are many situations where this is the appropriate way to test a product.
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The Truth About Page Download Time
24/09/2007 Duración: 21minThis week, Christine Perfetti asks Jared Spool about User Interface Engineering’s groundbreaking study on download time. In this study, we found the actual download time of a page didn’t impact a site’s usability.
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Inherent Value Tests
17/09/2007 Duración: 24minThis week, Christine Perfetti asks Jared Spool about one of UIE's most valuable usability testing techniques, Inherent Value Tests. Inherent Value Testing gives the team important information about how well a web site communicates the inherent value the designers are putting into the site.
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5-Second Usability Tests
10/09/2007 Duración: 16minThis week, Christine and Jared discuss the genesis and value of five-second usability tests.
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Department and Store Pages
27/08/2007 Duración: 21minIn last week's podcast, we talked about Gallery Pages, which are pages with links to the site’s content pages. This week, Christine asked me about two other types of pages: Department pages and Store pages. These pages become crucial when an information-rich site has thousands (and sometimes millions) of pages.
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Gallery Pages
13/08/2007 Duración: 21minIn this week’s episode, Christine Perfetti asks Jared Spool about UIE’s research on Gallery Pages. Gallery Pages, the list of links to content, are a web site’s hardest working page. They are the final page that determine whether users will successfully find their content.
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Home Page Design
06/08/2007 Duración: 23minIn this Usability Tools podcast, Christine Perfetti asks Jared Spool about UIE's latest thinking on home page design.