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Making something usable is not magic. It’s a process of carefully testing and refining designs through an iterative process. Our collection of Testing blogs covers the fundamentals of testing approaches and methodologies as well as tips and techniques to hone your skills.

How to Do a Paper Prototype Test in 7 Steps: The quick, easy, and dirt cheap way

By Michelle Brown

Elsie had $100, very little time, and needed results. She and her team were developing a new grocery-shopping app that would substantially...

Design

Akendi Goes to the Movies – James Bond

By Dan Iaboni

As we gear up for summer blockbusters, I thought it would be fun to take a look at how usability and user testing is represented in the fictional...

Research

How to not sabotage your own card sort: Tips for success

By Monica Zaczynski

Card sorting is a great method of exploring and understanding how users organize and label content. In our post on Card Sorting, we provided the...

General

Prototyping for Usability Testing Ã¢â‚¬” How detailed should you get?

By Fatima Kanji

When testing prototypes, more often than not we find that there is a mismatch between the prototype fidelity and the underlying goals of...

Testing

The Case for Usability Testing

By Cindy Beggs

Every year we do lots of usability testing on products that are in various states of design and/or development. Many are already in market, and in...

General

The Measurement of UX Success

By Seneca Brandi

Ã¢â‚¬Å“Everything should be 3-clicks awayÃ¢â‚¬Â The infamous statement that I hear far too often during a product or website redesign.Ã‚Â It...

Design

Why Iteration is Critical to User Centred Design

By Fatima Kanji

At Akendi, we firmly believe in the importance of engaging the user throughout the design process.The earlier, the betterÃ¢â‚¬"better insight...

Design

5 Things to Consider When Conducting UX Testing on Mobile Devices

By Patrick Noonan

When it comes to repeatedly creating exceptional user experiences, there are few tools in the UX practitioner's toolbox as critical as usability...

General

Paper Prototyping and Unconstructed Thought

By Monica Zaczynski

During my years in design school we were encouraged (and actually required) to always begin our work by sketching - away from our computers, away...

Design

Usability Testing for Medical Systems and Devices

By Dan Iaboni

My introduction to the world of human factors and usability testing was through a book entitled, Ã¢â‚¬Å“Set Phasers on Stun: and other true...

Build

Bias in the UX Lab

By Seneca Brandi

Bias is an inclination. Most Biases -� like preferring the smell of perfume instead of garbage, or assuming someone who's shivering is cold -� a...

Testing

Usability Testing is NOT Public Opinion Research

By Dominira Saul

This week it was brought to my attention that the Canadian Government was reviewing the standing offers that pertained to Public Opinion...

Research

The Importance of User Expectations in Experience Design

By Janet Bewell

In personality psychology, we talk about traits and states. Traits are said to be stable characteristics across situations, like being...

General

Ready to Wear? Evaluating the user experience with Jawbone UP24

By Dan Iaboni

This year was proclaimed to be the year of wearable technology so I decided to give one of the more successful products a try to evaluate the...

General

Solving the Right Problem: The Importance of Task Analysis

By Monica Zaczynski

I had the pleasure of attending this years' ACM CHI conference on Human Factors. I tore myself away from the excitement at the Akendi booth (yes...

Research

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