Working on a clickable prototype in the last couple of weeks I am reminded again of how much I can do in Axure that I couldn’t do in Visio. User Experience Design is all about context and while I know I got a lot of great information using paper prototypes, there is another layer of learning I’ve achieved by allowing these users to personalize their experience using a clickable prototype based on where they navigate and what they enter and displaying that information back to them. (more…)
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009The Five Minute Home Page Usability Evaluation
Thursday, March 26th, 2009A co-worker came into my office today with a printout of a prototype home page a friend of hers was working on. She was wondering if having this contact box on the home page was a good idea or not.
I don’t know when people will learn, but asking me a yes or no question is a Bad Idea. I am not known for my brevity.
What came out of this was what was probably the world’s fastest home page usability evaluation. And in the time it took me to tweet about it, this friend had turned into a potential client. This led me to believe that this kind of ultra-fast evaluation might be a worthwhile business development tool.
So, here is what I did… but is this a repeatable process? Maybe, maybe not. Try it out and let me know.
