Usability testing

Usability testing is an essential part of user centered design processes. It is necessary to evaluate prototypes: if designers made wrong assumptions or missed requirements, a usability test is likely to reveal them. Testing can be carried out in a usability lab, or on-site with a portable usability lab. Usability testing typically includes synchronized recoding of multiple modalities: a close up image of the user, a screen capture video, speech, tasks, errors, and system events collected by uLog™. The Observer^® XT is ideal to combine all these data streams. Take a look at some example usability labs! 

Interesting publications

A diverse collection of scientific articles citing Noldus products are published in renowned journals each week. The following list is only a small selection of the most recent published scientific articles.

• Yammiyavar, P.; Clemmensen, T.; & Kumar, J. (2008). Influence of Cultural Background on Non-verbal Communication in a Usability Testing Situation. International Journal of Design [Online], 2 (2).
• Tenopir, C.; Wang, P.; Zhang, Y.; Simmons, B.; Pollard, R (2008). Academic users’ interactions with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective and cognitive behaviors. Information Processing and Management, 44, 105-121.