Bridging the Designer-User Gap (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - The Diigo Meta page

• 14 Apr 11
  

  Jason Marotti

  Design Team ≠ Typical Users
  Generally, if you're a member of a design team, you are not representative of the target audience. I don't care if you're the interaction designer, the graphics artist, the information architect, the writer, the programmer, or

  usability design webdesign ux

• 18 Jun 10
  

  Megan Fields

  usability nielsen

• 11 Mar 10
  

  mobiletester mobiletesterov

  usability jakobnielsen

• 27 Mar 09
  

  Alex Horstmann

  Depending on how representative designers are of the target audience, a project might need more or less user testing. Still, usability concerns never go away completely.

  usability design ux process

• 05 May 08
  

  Tania Martínez Dubla

  Diseño Usabilidad usuario

• 17 Apr 08
  

  Nikki D.

  usability webdesign webdev

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  Ratcatcher

  "If you thought it's easy to get to Google, think again. In our current round of usability research, only 76% of users who expressed a desire to run a Google search were successful"

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• 15 Apr 08
  

  Jungmi Park

  article blog design development google interface marketing process research resources search webdesign nielsen web usability user user-centered work searchengine tools seo UI

• 08 Apr 08
  

  Rachel Murray

  usability nielsen

• 02 Apr 08
  

  Nacho Montoya

  webdesign usability interface

• 27 Mar 08
  

  Frederik Van Zande

  google report target_group types_of_users usability

  •  If you thought it's easy to get to Google, think again. In our current round of usability research, only 76% of users who expressed a desire to run a Google search were successful. In other words, 1/4 of users who wanted to use Google couldn't do so. (Instead, they either completely failed to get to any search engine or ended up running their query on a different search engine — usually whatever type-in field happened to be at hand.) 

     On the one hand, 76% is a high success rate. On the other hand, getting to Google is a very simple task. It's not even a true task — that is, it's not something users want to accomplish for its own sake or something we'd pose as an assignment in user testing. Getting a Google search box is the first step in searching the Web, which is only the first step in doing something real (such as, in one of our test tasks, to find "a strong vacuum cleaner that is easy to use, can pick up pet hair, and costs under $300").
• 26 Mar 08
  

  Deb Gallo

  usability

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  DeboraGallo

  usability

• 25 Mar 08
  

  Martin M

  design

• 24 Mar 08
  

  Rober Morales-Chaparro

  blog design development google interface resources search tools ux nielsen webdesign usability web

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  Rafael Ribas

  design ict usability

• 22 Mar 08
  

  ava tarantella

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• 20 Mar 08
  

  Marcin Barczyński

  webdesign interface usability web development

• 18 Mar 08
  

  terry p

  Google Research Search JakobNielsen HCI

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  queli Coto

  diseño usabilidad usuario

• 17 Mar 08
  

  Kenneth Siev

  Usability Design webdesign Interface nielsen web development

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  todd denis

  usability design interface nielsen

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  Colin Brosnan

  usability design webdesign interface searchengine development

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  Simon Doggett

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  Janne L

  Depending on how representative designers are of the target audience, a project might need more or less user testing. Still, usability concerns never go away completely.

  webdesign design usability nielsen

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  Kazuhito Kidachi

  "The wider the gap between your situation and the users, their tasks, and their context, the more you need a systematic usability process to inform and adjust your design."

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