UX User Testing

By Jeff Hurd
Learn to use User Experience Research to influence your design decisions.
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Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Aug 13, 2019
Duration
2h 26m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Developing a Plan for Your Usability Test
Scenario Introduction 3m Usability Testing in the Agile Design Process 2m User-centered Design Process 1m Usability Testing Steps 1m Qualitative and Quantitative Data 1m Planning a User Test 11m Summary 1m
Moderated vs. Unmoderated User Testing
What We're Testing 2m Remove vs. On-site Testing 4m Recruiting for On-site Tests 2m Recruiting for Remote Tests 1m Summary 1m
Tree Testing
Overview 1m Card Sorting Introduction 2m Demo: Card Sorting 2m Types of Card Sorting 1m Demo: Persona Card Sorting 2m Analyzing Card Sorting Results 3m Tree Testing Introduction 4m Tree Testing Tips and Tricks 1m Analyzing Tree Testing Results 3m Summary 1m
A/B Testing
Overview 2m Control vs. Variant 2m How to Perform an A/B Test 5m What to Avoid When Performing A/B Tests 5m A/B Test Case Study 4m
Focus Groups
Why Use Focus Groups? 4m The Steps to Performing a Focus Group 5m What You'll Need to Perform a Focus Group 2m Focus Group Dos and Don'ts 3m Common Outcomes of Focus Groups 3m
Beta Testing
Overview 6m Planning a Successful Beta Test 6m Examining Beta Test Results 4m
Moderating User Testing
Preparation before Testing 5m Beginning the User Interview / Testing 7m Interview Questions 7m
Analyzing User Testing Data
Overview 2m Issue Organization 3m Prioritization Frameworks 7m Solutions 3m Creating a Usability Testing Report 7m
Description
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Aug 13, 2019
Duration
2h 26m
Description

When making design decisions, the most efficient way to work is building in cycles of user testing. Don’t spend engineering resources to test out new designs, start with user testing and streamline your application’s UX before writing a single line of code. In this course, UX User Testing, you will learn foundational knowledge of conducting user testing sessions. First, you will learn how to develop a plan for your user test. Next, you will discover the difference between moderated and unmoderated user testing. Finally, you will explore how to run a focus group. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of UX User Testing needed to analyze the data to make informed business and design decisions.

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Jeff Hurd
About the author

Jeff has over 10 years experience working in video production and product management.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hello. My name is Jeff Hurd, and welcome to my course, UX User Testing. Sharing our ideas, mockups, and prototypes to users is a powerful step to creating great products, but it can be extremely difficult to find the right kinds of users, document the findings, and keep bias completely out of the process. In this course, we're going to go over the best practices of usability testing in order to obtain high-quality feedback that informs our design and product decisions. Some of the major topics that we'll cover include developing a usability test plan, moderating a user testing session, many specific types of usability testing such as tree testing, A/B testing, and focus groups, and analyzing user testing data, creating themes without bias, as well as a usability testing report. By the end of this course, you'll know how to plan and execute effective usability testing. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn usability testing techniques with the UX User Testing course, at Pluralsight.

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