Introduction to Usability Testing

Plan and run your own usability tests
Learn about how to plan and run a usability test from start to finish, including running a practice test. This course is for people considering adding usability testing to their process who want a strong, practical overview.

“Very useful takeaways to run our own Usability testing sessions”

“Great introduction on what to consider when setting up a portable usability lab”

Outline of the Course

1. What is Usability - Discusses the question of what we mean by usability.

2. What is Usability Testing - Provides an introduction and overview to testing, and to the different types of testing that you can use

3. Planning a Usability Test - Describes the things we need to think about when we begin to plan a test

4. Participants - Discusses the people who need to be involved in the testing

5. Tasks - Consider what tasks we need to use in order to test effectively

6. Preparing Materials - Introduces the typical set of materials we need to conduct testing

7. Test Laboratory - Look at the basic equipment needed

8. Running a Usability Test - Walk through the things we need to do when we run a test. We will run a dummy test at that time so that we can get a feel for what is involved

9. Analysing Results - Describes how to deal with the data we collect during usability testing, and how to write effective reports

10. Pitfalls - Look at some of the things that can go wrong, and how to avoid or deal with them.