Painless and Efficient Ways to Do Usability Testing

Usability testing helps product builders and designers make informed design decisions that increase the odds of creating helpful and delightful user experiences.

Rafael Mojica, VP of User Experience at DigitalOcean, guides you through his favorite ways to carry out usability testing, and shares insights on how you can validate the decisions you make while building.

What You’ll Learn
- What, when, and with whom to validate your product/service design decisions
- Tips on what to do before, during, and after a usability study
- Best practices on successful usability testing

This Talk is Designed For
- Product builders and designers

Agenda
00:00 Introduction
06:14 Reasons for user testing
06:54 When to conduct a usability test
08:23 Whom to invite
15:31 Recruiting test users
18:03 Defining testing objectives
21:13 Preparing for testing
23:29 Guiding testing
24:43 Open questions
26:10 Quantitativeness
27:28 Pro tips
31:53 Summarizing insights
33:50 Acting on findings
36:15 What-ifs
38:18 Checklist

About the Presenter
Rafael Mojica, VP of User Experience at DigitalOcean, is a multidisciplinary interaction designer. He’s passionate about expanding the benefits of design thinking and communications into all aspects of a business.

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