Aggiorno’s First Usability Study
We had an exciting week at Artinsoft. We are very close to an alpha state of our product named Aggiorno. What Aggiorno is about? Well,l I can’t tell you yet until release. But I can tell you I don’t know any other product claiming to do the same thing.
After several Sprints, we are ready to follow all the sacred guidelines for conducting Usability Tests. How do we know about those? Artinsoft foresaw this necessity and I was sent to the Usability Week 2007, Washington D.C. on April 22 through 27.
Roughly, I am leading the following steps
- Recruiting people based on a Screening definition.
- Scheduling the usability tests.
- Executing the usability tests
- Analyzing the usability tests
Recruiting people based on a Screening definition
To make a long story short, we found a way to form partnerships with high quality companies whose employees can be benefited with product. They found users (that fit our Aggiorno User Profile) able to willingly participate in our usability tests.
I am especially grateful to those companies for helping us to make a very usable product. I would let you know who they are very soon.
In this matter I just want to point out how important was to recruit just five users for this product stage. The reason is clearly explained in the following article Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users of Jakob Nielsen. Nielsen was one of the speakers at Usability Week. I had the chance to talk with him after the training in order to discussing how to fit agile processes with Usability Studies.
Next steps
We setup our Usability Lab to run the tests at after work hours. I improve considerably my facilitator skills with each usability test, I love it!! Currently, we are evaluating the Morae software of Techsmith and in a future post I will let you know my opinion about it.
In this picture you can see me facilitating the test and explaining the setting of the usability lab to one of our users.
Keep tuned!
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