Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Why usability testing many times does not yield good outputs?

Usability testing is a tool to produce information, from which the designs are made or improved. Hence, the key lies in how one conducts the usability testing. The following are important parameters that one needs to consider while doing usability testing-

  1. Do you know why you are doing usability testing?
  2. Bringing the usability team together
  3. Get the right participants
  4. Design the right tasks
  5. Facilitate the test effectively
  6. Plan on how you will disseminate the results
  7. Iterate to test potential solutions