29. Juni 2011

The sexiest thing about usability testing?

In ihrem Blog-Beitrag Usability testing is HOT schreibt Dana Chisnell über Sinn und Zweck von Usability-Tests.

bserving people using early designs can be energizing as designers and developers get a chance to see reactions to ideas. I’ve seen teams walk away with insights from observing people use their designs that they couldn’t have got any other way – and then make better designs than they’ve ever made. Close to launch, it is exciting – yes, exciting – to see a design perform as useful, usable, and desirable. I’ve been negative on usability testing and our failure of imagination regarding bringing the method up to date, lately. But there’s a lot of good to any basic usability test. In fact, I went looking for the worth, the value, the alluring in usability testing a few weeks ago when I asked on Quora, “What’s the sexiest thing about usability testing?”

Der Beitrag ist durchaus lesenswert.