From the course: UX Foundations: Usability Testing
What you can usability test
From the course: UX Foundations: Usability Testing
What you can usability test
- You can usability test pretty much any product, on computers, tablets, or phones, or even using paper. You can evaluate hardware, from coffee machines to nuclear power stations, or software from a simple mobile app to a full Office Productivity Suite. You can do it at any stage of the process, from early paper prototype concepts, through to the finished code. User testing helps you understand the interaction between hardware, software, and business processes, from the perspective of the people who work with the product every day. Testing early, and testing often means that you stay in touch with your user's needs throughout the development process. The earlier in the process you start user testing, the more likely it is that you'll be able to make changes based on what you find, and the cheaper those changes will be to implement. For that reason, usability testing is a bit of a misnomer. It makes people think about testing finished things. Actually, usability sessions are much more useful for helping you work out what you should even build in the first place.
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