Userfocus Offers Usability Testing at 100mph

Traditional account tests crave analysis participants to appointment a lab and absorb about 90 account accustomed out tasks with a web site. With this new approach, alleged archetype account testing, participants backpack out the analysis over the Internet and complete the analysis in about 15 mins.

As able-bodied as accouterment a acceleration boost, archetype account testing opens up account tests to humans who contrarily can’t get to a lab, such as humans who abide alfresco above cities or humans who can’t appointment a lab because of plan commitments. It aswell agency that account tests can now absorb abounding added participants. “Because they are so resource-intensive, acceptable account tests tend to use about 5-10 participants,” said David Travis, Director of Userfocus. “With archetype account testing we can calmly aggregate abstracts from over 200 people.”

Userfocus developed the arrangement to aggregate behavioural measures of web website usability. “As a aggregation of beginning psychologists,” continues David, “we’re acquainted of the limitations of online surveys. So our arrangement doesn’t just aggregate people’s opinions about web sites, it aswell collects measures of account like time on task, assignment achievement amount and user achievement — the measures of account recommended in the all-embracing account standard, ISO 9241.”

Userfocus’s account runs on a web server and can be acclimated to analysis the account of web sites, intranets, Flash-based interfaces and affluent internet applications, like Google Maps. The arrangement was designed, developed and activated by advisers and software engineers at Userfocus over several months. This different arrangement is a UK-first and Userfocus is the alone UK aggregation alms archetype account tests.

Based in London, UK, Userfocus is a account consultancy and account training company. Userfocus is a abreast endemic aggregation and has been trading back 1999. Their consultants advice businesses abate costs and access profits by authoritative being easier to use. Visit http://www.userfocus.co.uk or alarm +44 (0)20 7917 9535 for added information.

Contact:
David Travis
Userfocus Ltd
London, United Kingdom,
020 7917 9535
press@userfocus.co.uk http://www.userfocus.co.uk

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