“Silverback makes it easy, quick and cheap for everyone to perform guerrilla usability tests with no setup and no expense, using hardware already in your Mac.”
This might be a good option to ask for user’s feedback, especially if one contacts you over a problem they are having. This way you can see where they are having a problem + have the them annotate the problem they are having.
Here are couple of sites for doing card sorting interactively and online. Best part is you can invite participants online to contribute and provide their input. This list is provided by the very awesome UX blog Sixrevisions.
OptimalSort offers a quality card-sorting and usability-testing service for a monthly fee. Create cards and options, and then send a link to the study to chosen participants. Or tweet the link and get random participants who are willing to help you out. The application offers real-time results and graphs, and the interface is sleek and smart.
WebSort is another online application with which designers can create card-sorting usability tests and send a link to the public or to chosen participants. It also has a great interface and calculates results and graphs just like OptimalSort. WebSort, however, has a unique drag-and-drop interface to simplify organization.
Pre-organize data into groups and sub-categories. With User Zoom you can have unlimited participants, and there is an option to include your own questions (such as, Why did you choose to place this content here, or Why did you group these items like this?). Tailored questions will get direct answers from participants and help you analyze their thought processes and improve the user experience.
xSort is an application for Macs that creates a drag-and-drop interface for card sorting that mimics physical cards. It also calculates and presents the results for you to use on screen or print out for future reference.
CardZort, a standalone application for Windows, Mac and Linux, offers a simple approach to digital card sorting. Two programs are available: CardZort, the standard drag-and-drop card-sorting application, and CardCluster, which works with CardZort to create a detailed cluster analysis of the results. This lightweight tool is a great free option that gets right to the point of traditional card sorting.
Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave’s presentation slides from the SXSWi talk are up. Here’s a summary:
User experiences are your everyday experiences—anything from operating a car, to making a pot of coffee, to ordering a pair of shoes online. User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it’s delivered and its related artifacts according to the design.
In this presentation Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave will explore the ten characteristics of a great user experience. They will cover all aspects of user experience design such as user research, information architecture, information design, technical writing, interaction design, visual design, brand identity design, accessibly, usability and web analytics. Nick and Raina will also explain how following the ten commandments can boost your web sites, web app, or mobile app’s ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more.
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Finally this year, I was able to attend a SXSW which I was interested in since I heard about it the first time. And against all the negative comments in the blogosphere (eg. TechCrunch), I really enjoyed it! I attended more than 20 panels on interactive, met many many people, and even enjoyed a quick chat with Bruce Sterling on OpenProcessing (he blogged about it couple of times, this time he even took a photo of me). I will post my thoughts on the panels separately, but here is what I think and liked in general.
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Oh Entourage for Mac, are you supposed to be the perfect design disaster of the computer world?
Let me click “Yes” and see what’s going on..
Smashing Magazine gathered a collection of wireframing kits: utencils, indesign libraries, omni graffle stuff, iPhone templates…. No excuse for us to wire an idea any longer than 5 mins.
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files – Smashing Magazine.
We were all interested in digital interfaces. But we were all being reminded about how we interacted with physical things naturally. We were all reading The Design of Everyday Things
This is where we came, and it makes me smile in the name of today’s great designers:
I was checking out the website of my ol’pal Eudora, the serious email client, and I bumped into this new ‘feature’: In its recent version, there is this feature called MoodWatch, and basically alerts you (and stumbles you for a second) to make sure you REALLY want to send that message, if the message content has a bit of an angry mood.
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“Silverback makes it easy, quick and cheap for everyone to perform guerrilla usability tests with no setup and no expense, using hardware already in your Mac.”
This might be a good option to ask for user’s feedback, especially if one contacts you over a problem they are having. This way you can see where they are having a problem + have the them annotate the problem they are having.
The website that Google ends up taking you to find your php questions, stack exchange, also revealed their UX related exchange website.
Artist vs. VC on Google image search
card sorting online! whoa, this really looks cool!
How your audience makes a difference
nice example for favorite + comment icon placement
Above-the-fold term comes from newspapers, which users consume the content after they buy. In web, users take action after they consume the content.A quote to help you in ‘above the fold’ discussions
An article on memorialization process of the deceased on Facebook
So I am thinking; a single word is sharper than a blade, and a single picture is worth thousand words, how sharp is an image?
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