Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set ...Test!

Provides readers with the tools and techniques needed to begin usability testing and advance their knowledge in this area

Carol M. Barnum (Author)

9780128169421, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 14 September 2020

480 pages
23.5 x 19 x 3 cm, 0.97 kg

"Readers will find in this book a complete workflow for becoming competent usability researchers. Though the book doesn’t cover every possible nuance of usability testing—no one volume could accomplish that—Usability Testing Essentials is perhaps one of the most complete books on usability testing available. More importantly, it is written where even a complete novice can understand, but it also contains a wealth of wisdom that seasoned professionals will find useful as a reference guide to the most difficult art and science that is usability testing." --Technical Communication

Usability Testing Essentials presents a practical, step-by-step approach to learning the entire process of planning and conducting a usability test. It explains how to analyze and apply the results and what to do when confronted with budgetary and time restrictions. This is the ideal book for anyone involved in usability or user-centered design—from students to seasoned professionals.

Filled with new examples and case studies, Usability Testing Essentials, Second Edition is completely updated to reflect the latest approaches, tools and techniques needed to begin usability testing or to advance in this area.

1. Establishing the Essentials
2. Exploring the Usability and UX Toolkit
3. Testing Here, There, Everywhere
4. Understanding Users and Their Goals
5. Planning for Usability Testing
6. Preparing for Usability Testing
7. Conducting a Usability Test
8. Analyzing the Findings
9. Reporting the Findings
10. International Usability Testing

Subject Areas: Human-computer interaction [UYZ], Computer programming / software development [UM]