Nearly all of what I've heard and experienced about all of these
kinds of things is that you end up with people who aren't designers
(engineers, product managers, etc.) and because of the audience do a
lot of basic stuff and then a good chunk of group exercises that
aren't all that useful if
We are playing with the Acrobat indexing function as that seems like a
good candidate for us -- it doesn't require anyone to write in a
specific format or really do anything special, but it does make it
seem vaguely possible that you could find a needle in a haystack.
Thanks!
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Apps I love:
Greenprint: http://www.printgreener.com/
(Installs like a printer, lets you easily exclude pages without
anything useful on them, images, etc. when you print)
I cannot do anything without Typinator:
http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/
I love Screenflow for usability
You might also give them the option to do the questions immediately or
schedule a follow-up time. Even though it's only 15 minutes, having
the option to schedule it later removes all the pressure and makes it
easier to say yes...
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live, have you had luck with Mechanical Turk? It's tempting, but I am
wondering if you have issues with ESL?
I use college students to take detailed notes, not
transcriptions. It's better, frankly, as they helpfully edit out
things like my daughters hollering for me in the background at my home
I'm in love with ScreenFlow. Relatively inexpensive, lets you edit,
captures mic audio, computer audio, camera of participant and screen,
in any combination. Invisible when recording. I don't think it would
work for mobile, though.
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I am working in an organization that is focused on doing quick,
lightweight usability research, especially once the work has a good
foundation: bringing a design into a coffee shop, for example,
running 5 quick (15 minute) studies, making changes, showing 3 more
people the next day, etc.
In this
Marty Cagan has done some good stuff, and is always focused on
bridging the gaps between design, eng and product.
From this post: http://www.svpg.com/assessing-product-opportunities/
Fortunately, it%u2019s really not that hard to do a useful product
opportunity assessment. I ask product managers
Following up on Chris' comment, with which I wholeheartedly agree,
I've had some success with the following (assuming that you've
conducted and recorded your research):
1. require all attendees to watch or listen to at least 1/3 of your
interviews (or they'll be skewed)
2. have them note key
Thank you for your thoughtful replies.
I don't agree that including page titles in breadcrumbs is a
standard -- lots of sites do it, but many don't. If Apple isn't
doing it, can it really be a standard? ;-)
With a visually-related title and breadcrumb (alignment, proximity,
, etc.) I cannot
Outside of the breadcrumb conversation altogether, and assuming that
simpler is better where simpler is reasonable, feasible, etc.
redundant is simple shorthand for this is already here and it's
not adding value precisely because it's already here.
If one thing is doing something different from
I tried to make a change to a site I'm new to working on, to remove
the page title as the last element of the breadcrumb and simply treat
the title itself as the last element in the breadcrumb, including a
last and keeping the title immediately below. I was surprised that
not only wasn't it a
But if it isn't clear (that this is where you are), shouldn't there
be better ways of making it clear than providing a redundant
non-functional element?
Maybe with the You Are Here: and including that last ?
I might test this. I'll let y'all know if I can sneak it into a
usability study and what
Navid, can you share more about where they're at now? What's their
current perspective on design? What is their background?
Is there an existing team? Are you trying to make them more central
or staff up, or...?
Much of Marty Cagan's writing is relevant to this. See his book
Inspired, or his
I can say that I've had clients say, In light of the current
economy, we expected the price to be lower. And I've lowered it,
10-20%, when that happens. But it's happened less than half the
time.
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Entirely in agreement with Nasir and Robert,
I do it in the light of, %u201COk, how can we pare this down or
narrow its focus to fit within the budget you have in mind.%u201D
It%u2019s very rare that I would agree to do the same thing, just for
less $$, as if the original cost was just arbitrary.
I'm looking for examples of personalization that happens when a user
has not yet logged in, either via cookies, geo location by IP
address, or flash cookies (local shared objects).
Examples I have so far are:
- Amazon's home page, if you've ever logged in before
- Google local results in
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