Akendi Goes to the Movies – James Bond
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...
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How to not sabotage your own card sort: Tips for success
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...
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Prototyping for Usability Testing — How detailed should you get?
When testing prototypes, more often than not we find that there is a mismatch between the prototype fidelity and the underlying goals of...
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The Case for Usability Testing
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...
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Usability Testing for Medical Systems and Devices
My introduction to the world of human factors and usability testing was through a book entitled, “Set Phasers on Stun: and other true...
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Bias in the UX Lab
Bias is an inclination. Most Biases - like preferring the smell of perfume instead of garbage, or assuming someone who's shivering is cold - a...
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Usability Testing is NOT Public Opinion Research
This week it was brought to my attention that the Canadian Government was reviewing the standing offers that pertained to Public Opinion...
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Lab based, Remote and Unmoderated Usability Testing
What is the best approach for usability testing? At the moment, there are three main options for conducting usability test research studies: lab...
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What Usability Testing Does and Doesn’t Tell You
We at Akendi are increasingly asked to conduct usability tests with digital products in the later stages of product development. This means we...
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The Magic Number: A Usability Testing Question
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...
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Formative and Summative Usability Testing
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...
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How to determine if your design is ‘easy to use’
Good design depends on whether or not users “get it†and the only way to evaluate if you successfully communicated how the design...
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