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5 Great Ways To Test Your UX

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We all have to test UX at one time or another. If you have bad UX, there is a great possibility you won’t go far with your product, e-shop or any other website. So let’s take a look at 4 great ways to enhance your User Experience with these selected testing methods.


Card Sorting

Card Sorting (or OptimalSort) is a way to test your information architecture so it won’t confuse your users. It is a UX research method in which study participants group individual labels into different categories according to the criteria that make sense to them (card-sorting.com). With this method users themselves decide what’s good and what’s wrong. Say goodbye to confusing IA today!


Tree Testing

Tree Testing is another way to conduct IA testing. By UX community Tree Testing is also called the best friend of Card Sorting, because if you implement them togheter, they can clear up any confusion users might have and increase your UX exponentially. Tree testing is an UX research method that gives you insights how easy it is for users to find information on your website*. It shows you whether the structure of your website corresponds with what users would imagine it to be. In treetesting you give testers descriptive tasks and they have to pick a destination in which they would look for the answer. (tree-testing.com)


UX Surveying

UX Surveying is exactly what it sounds like. It is a method of testing, in which you specifically ask your users what could be improved or what’s wrong. You can either let testers express their opinions freely or give them options with various photos, text examples or buttons. Easy and quick with instant results, that is UX Surveying. If you want to learn more about UX Surveying visit ux-survey.com


Session Recording

Session recording (also known as Session Replay) is a useful UX research technique that allows you to simply record all of your users’ interactions with your website. Stop speculating on what’s wrong with your pages and how to make them better. Run a basic session recording study to collect all the information you need to make useful changes. There are many tools out there that carry out these types of studies, so you can take a look at session-recording.com for more info and list of great tools.


Usability testing in UX

 

Usability testing is the process of putting designs to the test with real people in order to learn more about the user experience - how difficult or easy the product is to use.

It's a fantastic way to gather useful feedback from users that engage with websites, prototypes, and apps. Because usability testing is essentially a complex series of tasks that are interdependent, I advocate using one of our recommended tools to make your life easier. This website is a great place to start if you want to learn more about usability testing for websites and apps. Feel free to remain and learn for as long as you want.


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