This method is a more traditional marketing approach to gathering evidence. You bring customers or people from your target audience into...

Selecting appropriate methods and planning an evaluation are not trivial. Many factors need to be taken into account. Some are concerned...

A User Experience (UX) Walkthrough is a technique used to identify usability and accessibility issues in a website or application. It is...

In the laboratory benchmarking that is done in usability engineering users have little or no control over what they do and how and when...

A number of HCI researchers have shown interest in ethnography as a method of collecting data about the real work situation. Not only do...

Cooperative evaluation is a technique to improve a user interface specification by detecting the possible usability problems in an early...

Just how fast is using a unified text field and location automation field compared to the traditional approach of using multiple form...

Card sorting is a technique that involves asking users to organize information into logical groups. This UX research method help designer...

When critically reviewing an experiment it is important to consider whether the experiment achieved what it set out to do and the...

A PACT analysis is a useful framework for thinking about human-centered design. The acronym PACT stands for People, Activities, Contexts,...

You need a clear question to answer or a hypothesis to get before doing any evaluation. You also need to plan your study carefully, but...

Discount usability evaluation was also developed by Nielsen in 1989. The idea behind this technique is to enable developers with few...

Video recording is usually coupled with some form of audio record, which is known as verbal protocol. Sometimes this verbal protocol may...

An effective starting point for designing new technology is to identify an existing problem or user need. Finding a big problem or need...

Usage simulations involve reviewing the system to find out usability problems. These reviews are usually done by experts, who simulate...

There is much confusion around the terms survey and questionnaire. They are often used interchangeably probably because people think...

Users' attitudes can have a strong influence throughout the design and development of products. Checking users' opinions at various...

Without doing some form of evaluation is impossible to know whether or not the design or system fulfills the needs of the users and how...