Top Five Articles of 2005
January 11th, 2006
As we begin the new year, UIE’s research team spends time examining what topics areas seem to resonate most with our readers. Here is a list of the top 5 UIE articles readers emailed to each other in 2005. If you haven’t read them all, here’s a chance to see what you missed:
1. 5-Second Tests: Measuring Your Site’s Content Pages How can design teams be confident their content pages are understandable to users? How does a team ensure they’ve designed content pages that communicate the essential information effectively? A simple usability testing technique can help design teams quickly measure how a content page performs with users. We call it the 5-Second Test.
2. What Makes a Design Seem ‘Intuitive’? An intuitive interface doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when one of two specific conditions are met. In this article, Jared describes the critical relationship between current knowledge (what the user knows when they encounter the design) and target knowledge (what the user needs to know to accomplish their goal), showing the two conditions that lead to an interface users will perceive as intuitive.
3. Testing Web Sites with Eye-Tracking Thanks to some usability studies we conducted using an eye-tracking system, we now have real evidence of where users actually look when they view a web page.
4. The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities UIE’s researchers have one favorite technique for helping designers collaborate better with each other: The KJ-Method. UIE routinely uses the KJ-Method to help teams find patterns in large amounts of unorganized data. It quickly helps groups establish design priorities and reach consensus.
5. Seven Common Usability Testing Mistakes As we work with teams all over the globe, there are mistakes that we see frequently. These mistakes are very easy to prevent — if only the team members realized they were making them. Here are seven of the most common mistakes.
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