Fresh Eyes for Your Firm’s Website

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Jun 272012
 

Although I’ve had no time to write a new article for A Better UX this month, here’s a piece I wrote for Thomson Reuters, published earlier this month. It’s pretty high-level stuff compared to articles on this blog, intended to give small businesses with limited resources a few tips to help assess and improve the general usability of their website, but I figured it was worth mentioning here. So here it is… “Fresh Eyes for Your Firm’s Website” I’ll post a new article here in [...]

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Appetite for Destruction: Testing without the Test Plan

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May 302012
 

So you’ve documented the new or revised functional requirements for your website or app. The obvious next step is to base a test plan on those requirements to ensure the code behaves as expected. Assuming users use it the way you hope they will. But what if they don’t? Is it possible that they may attempt to use the system in ways you hadn’t anticipated? And if so, how does the system react—if at all? If you’re serious about functional testing, it’s important to ensure [...]

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