Usability Testing Boot Camp

Boost your web site's user experience by learning how to run your own usability test from start to finish.

Created by: David Travis
Author of 'Think Like a UX Researcher'

What Will I Learn?

• Structure a usability test plan to get buy-in from management and the development team.
• Recruit the right test participants
• Generate test tasks that are relevant to your customers and your business.
• Identify the right usability test method for your product and its lifecycle phase.
• Choose between remote and lab-based tests, and moderated and unmoderated usability tests.
• Design usability tests that meet international standards in usability.
• Master usability test moderation.
• Collect and analyse behavioural data.
• Persuade managers and developers to take action based on your test results.
• Adapt our industry-standard forms and templates for your own tests.

Requirements

• A willingness to take the perspective of the user.

Target audience

• Interface designers who want to experience hands-on techniques for testing and evaluating their designs with end users.
• Product development engineers and designers who want to choose the right usability test for the current product lifecycle stage.
• Project managers who want to manage the usability testing process.
• Marketing managers who want to see samples of usability test reports, usability questionnaires, screeners and other deliverables from usability tests.
• Business analysts who want to use performance-based testing to communicate the cost-benefits of the user experience.
• Web site designers who want to learn the kind of practical knowledge that you can't get from reading a book.