Testing

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.

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

Beware: Concept Testing that thinks it’s Usability Testing

By Cindy Beggs

When we talk about user research, we're including the narrower activity of usability testing. Usability testing is, like all user research...

Innovation

Unboxing Ubi: A Usability Review

By Dan Iaboni

For most, consumer products are one of the first touch points with the user which occurs at the unboxing. Like children at Christmas, the user...

General

Top Four Member Research Tactics

By Seneca Brandi

Member research is an often-overlooked element in the growth of an association, however, when used effectively it offers value far beyond simple...

Research

Lab based, Remote and Unmoderated Usability Testing

By Tedde van Gelderen

What is the best approach for usability testing? At the moment, there are three main options for conducting usability test research studies: lab...

General

What Usability Testing Does and Doesn’t Tell You

By Tedde van Gelderen

We at Akendi are increasingly asked to conduct usability tests with digital products in the later stages of product development. This means we...

Testing

The Magic Number: A Usability Testing Question

By Dan Iaboni

Running a usability study does not need to be an expensive endeavour since you are most likely looking to gain insights into a design rather than...

Strategy

Formative and Summative Usability Testing

By Tedde van Gelderen

When is the best time to do usability testing when developing a new product or service? When you consider the place of usability testing in the...

Testing

How to determine if your design is ‘easy to use’

By Dan Iaboni

Good design depends on whether or not users Ã¢â‚¬Å“get itÃ¢â‚¬Â and the only way to evaluate if you successfully communicated how the design...

Research

A UX Guide to Walking Down the Street

By Tedde van Gelderen

The other day I got into this typical situation. Walking on the sidewalk, a friendly man comes from the opposite side, it looks like we're on a...

General

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