It’s somewhat usual to leave the testing with Internet Explorer until the end of the project. This is quite acceptable when you’re dealing mainly with layout issues. But when you’re building a web application with loads of features, there are several issues to struggle with: constant debugging, client-side performance, proprietary bugs and so on. However, getting [...]
February 11, 2010
Designing a rich Internet application RIA can test even an experienced design team. The hardest challenge is to blend Web and desktop paradigms to create a responsive and intuitive experience. Some paradigms that exist in the desktop environment are ill-suited for the Web, while many of the Web paradigms people are familiar with paging, explicit [...]
February 10, 2010
Usability and conversion rates are inextricably linked. If customers are confused, bored or unmotivated by any aspect of your site, you’re going to find it much more difficult to get them to do what you want, whether that’s buy a product, fill out a form or join a mailing list. Usability and conversion analysis tools, such [...]
January 27, 2010
Testing your site’s usability is something everyone really should do, usability covers things such as colour contrast, website speed and performance, ensuring elements are placed correctly and general on site aspects such as broken links and cross browser compatibility. Below are 8 interesting tools which check various aspects of your site and provides you with information [...]
November 9, 2009
Alex Young has now implemented Riot.js which brings you the lean framework in a format that can run stand-along via Rhino, or through the browser itself with tests that look like: via Ajaxian » Riot.js: JavaScript port of the lean fast unit test framework.
October 23, 2009
There seems to be this idea going around that usability testing is bad, or that the cool kids don’t do it. That it’s old skool. That designers don’t need to do it. What if I told you that usability testing is the hottest thing in experience design research? Every time a person has a great [...]
March 8, 2010
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