Early and often is not just advice for voting in Chicago—it’s also one of the key principles for designing for a usable experience. Testing an experience while it’s still in its prototype stage allows you to find and fix problems before they become difficult and expensive to fix. User experiences with prototypes (even low fidelity
Mobile technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. To help keep up, we pulled together relevant insights about the mobile user experience and mobile usage in general. This is an updated article to the 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2013 articles based on published data and our own mobile UX research. Cellphones are ubiquitous. A Pew Research
Mobile technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. To help keep up, we pulled together relevant insights about the mobile user experience and mobile usage in general. This is an updated article to the 2016, 2015, and 2013 articles based on published data and our own mobile UX research. Cellphones are ubiquitous. A Pew Research report
The mobile user experience is no longer a niche industry. It’s hard to talk about the user experience of websites and software and not consider the impact and experience of mobile devices. We’ve presented a number of facts and insights in 2013 and 2015. Here’s an updated and expanded version culled from many sources on
The world continues to go mobile. And in the process, designers, programmers and product stakeholders continue to ask questions about the mobile landscape, from demographics to usage. We first presented a number of facts and insights in 2013. Here’s an updated version with some new additions and a look back on how accurate some of
The typical mobile website experience is horrible. Everyone knows that, right? Sure, it’s easy to find some terrible mobile website experiences, but are mobile websites systematically worse that their desktop counterparts? Now that 80% of all adults who go online own a smartphone this is an important question to answer. Mobile websites often look like
As companies continue to focus on improving the usability of their mobile websites and applications, testing these interfaces can feel a lot like testing websites in 1996–lots of surprises, unfamiliar conventions, workarounds, and frustrations. While conducting a usability test on a mobile device shares a lot of the same characteristics as a desktop usability study,
What would happen if you gave a few dozen people a free iPhone AND cell service for one year and then monitored their usage? This isn’t some story about the NSA, instead, it’s longitudinal research that was actually conducted at Rice University and reported last year [pdf]. Much of the data we have on mobile
When it comes to testing websites there are many unmoderated and moderated solutions. But if you’ve ever tried to evaluate an app or website on a mobile phone or tablet there are fewer options. Usertesting.com offers a new mobile testing service which recruits users and records their mobile devices while they interact with your app
