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Quick and simple user testing
From the course: Web Career Clinic
Quick and simple user testing
- [Lauren] Hi, I'm Lauren Bacon, and this is the Web Career Clinic where I explore how to build a career you will love making good stuff on the web. Today, I want to talk about user testing and how to do it quickly and effectively in the context of a typical web development project. I'm going to make some assumptions here. First, I'm assuming that you have a very small team and that you don't have a dedicated UX person on your team. If you, do that's awesome, but you probably don't need to watch this video. I'm also going to assume that you don't have a professional user testing service or a laboratory or any fancy gadgets. This is a guide to super simple, no frills user testing that anyone with access to a laptop or a smartphone can do. First of all, there are two obvious places in a project where it makes sense to consult real live users of whatever it is you're making. The first point at which you ideally want to be talking to users is at the very outset of the project to help you…
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