Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Course
Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability tests - one day course
Overview
- How to evaluate your organisation's Internet and Intranet site, web applications and software
- Learn discount usability evaluation methods such as heuristic evaluations and cognitive walkthroughs
- How to design, plan & facilitate usability test sessions
- How to analyse test results and effectively communicate results
- Logistics, technologies and ethics of usability testing
- View detailed course outline
2010 dates and locations
| Brisbane | Sydney | Melbourne | Canberra | Adelaide | Perth | ||
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| 5 May | 20 Apr | 6 Jul | 1 Dec | On demand - please email interest | |||
Costs and registration
The cost for this one day course is $750 plus GST = $825 - Includes lunch, refreshments and all course materials including examples and templates that you can use in your own organisation.
Discounts
- Earlybird discount. Save 10%. - Register 30 days prior to course commencement date to qualify OR
- Register 3 participants from the same organisation on the same course and the 4th person can attend for free OR
- Register the same person for more than one course and receive a 20% discount for subsequent courses OR
- Returning student discount. 20% for any registered student who had previously attended one of our courses.
Register online today as our course numbers are strictly limited.
Who should attend
- Business analysts
- Content and business owners involved in creating web content
- Online communications officers
- Producers
- Designers
- IT and web managers
- Testers
- Developers
- Usability specialists and user centred designers
Course outline
Module 1: Usability design guidelines & heuristics
- Understanding common user behaviour and usability design guidelines / heuristics
Module 2: Expert reviews - desktop evaluations
- Writing personas and scenarios for usability evaluations
- Heuristic evaluations using checklists
- Cognitive walkthroughs using personas and scenarios
- Limitations and drawbacks of expert reviews
Module 3: Usability testing
- What to test and when in the development lifecycle
- Where to test - field studies versus internal offices / meeting rooms versus usability laboratory
- Design a usability study and writing test plans
- Recruiting test participants
- Conducting tests
- Tips and traps for successful usability tests
- Evaluating results
- Ethics of testing with humans
Module 4: Tools, technologies and logistics
- Technologies available to conduct usability testing
- Eyetracking
- Consent forms
- Log sheets
- Participant compensation and purchasing policies
Module 5: Communicating results
- Effectively communicating results
- Report writing
- PowerPoint and video presentations
Where to now?
- Read testimonials
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More information
For further information on this our any of our other courses, please Contact us.