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Remote (unmoderated) Usability Testing Lee Duddell whatusersdo.com

Remote Usability Testing

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Presentation by Lee Duddell of WhatUsersDo to the Northern User Experience meeting of 24th Jan 2011 in Leeds.Lee describes how remote usability testing works and gives examples of novel ways it can be used.

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Remote (unmoderated) Usability Testing

Lee Duddellwhatusersdo.com

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What is it?

What can you do?

Examples

Free gift!(i.e. please don’t leave)

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Survey

Which tools do you use?

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WhatUsersDo

We’ve recruited a panel of UK internet users

1. You can set them tasks online

2. We record their voices and screens 3. You watch videos of their experience

i.e. remote unmoderated usability testing

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WhatUsersDo Panel

Thousands of UK people (Europe soon)

Use their own computers from home

Paid £8

Aged 16 to 79

Filter Age, Gender (for free)

Custom screening launch this week

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Panel Quality

Quarantine (not pro-testers)

Pay by PayPal and cheque

Clients’ rate users

Fresh users on each order

Guarantee

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Obvious things you can do...

- usability test your website

- usability test your competitors’ websites

- get feedback on a pre-production website

- observe people playing a (browser/FB) game

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Sample video

Link to usability video

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... and you can

- simulate repeat visits

- get very rapid feedback on unplanned events

- see how people search/destination sites

- test your survey/marketing email (before you send it)

- win client pitches

- sell usability internally

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Airline Sites

< 15 seconds to locate volcanic ash information

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Korean Air

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vs. Lab based approachesRemote = faster, cheaper, natural environment

Lab = eye-tracking, moderator, longer sessions

Many WhatUsersDo clients use both

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It’s a secret weapon...

The user videos are so compelling you can use them to influence the people you work

with(don’t tell anyone though)

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Your free gift!

Use your voucher codebefore midnight on Tuesday

www.whatusersdo.com