Crystal's Musings » testing http://www.codecrystal.com/blog The life and times of a web professional Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:01:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Usability Boot Camp http://www.codecrystal.com/blog/2009/12/usability-boot-camp/ http://www.codecrystal.com/blog/2009/12/usability-boot-camp/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:43:13 +0000 Crystal http://www.codecrystal.com/blog/?p=27 Brian Sullivan, Usability guru over at Sabre, hosted an excellent boot camp this past Saturday. It was an insightful refresher course on the theory and practice of conducting usability tests. I will definitely be taking many ideas back to Verizon. The most awesome part though was running Brian’s lab there on the Sabre campus. Sweet! In the immortal words of Will Smith “I gotta get me one of these!”

Check out Brian’s presentation slides on his blog.

Happy testing!

]]> http://www.codecrystal.com/blog/2009/12/usability-boot-camp/feed/ 0 You don't have to do it by the book… http://www.codecrystal.com/blog/2008/11/you-dont-have-to-do-it-by-the-book/ http://www.codecrystal.com/blog/2008/11/you-dont-have-to-do-it-by-the-book/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:18:49 +0000 Crystal http://codecrystal.com/?p=13 I was right all along…you don’t have to do it by the book. Dana Chisnell, co-author of that most wonderful manual “Handbook of Usability Testing”, says ditch the book and do what works for you. I love the informal usability walkthrough vs. the sterilized feel of the lab. It gives me a chance to really dig into what the user is thinking without the fear of “Did I miss a step?” “Did I ask the wrong question?”. It’s that personal connection that makes the end product connect…

Read it here: Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book

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