How to Talk to Your Users
Farhad FarzanehWe met Diane Loviglio, a user experience researcher at Mozilla, at a recent SF Bay Area meetup, and she shared some insights on the traditional Recruit-Observe-Interview-Navigate user testing process. 1.…
Tips On Writing Usability Tests When You Need Them
Previously, we wrote about some tips on how to write a good usability test on this blog. We have now incorporated some of those tips into a tips page that…
Tips for writing a usability test
To date at TryMyUI we have reviewed many thousands of usability test videos based upon tests created by our customers so we've learned what types of questions and tasks elicit…
Video Indexing!
TryMyUi adds video-indexing to quickly mark task positions in the video, and indicate the task duration.
Remedies for “Oops – I made a mistake in setting up my use test”
We added a couple of features recently to handle the oops case. This happens when you set up a use test, send it out to testers, and then realize that…
Don’t count on people to read instructions
While user testing on trymyui is easy, it's even easier for us to test our own design because each test that comes back reflects whether we've done a good job…
Create High-Fidelity Wireframes for UX Testing with Justinmind
Last month, we announced a new feature in TryMyUI that optimizes user feedback for prototypes and wireframes. Wireframes traditionally lack many of the design and visual elements that real people…
More confusing UI from a very popular service
Quora is a very popular new service from the ex-CTO of Facebook. Here's an image of part of the main page: The top bar shows an entry box followed by…
UI fail from the UI gurus
Here's a user interface failure courtesy of Apple: Note that the window cannot be expanded (why?). So how exactly are we supposed to know what the "Convert Selected Simplified C..."…
What leads to Why
Earlier we wrote about the difference between quantitative usability measurements, which answer the question: What are users doing? and qualitative measurements (for example, as provided by TryMyUi), which answer Why…