Weeknote 93
Fiestas Patrias, Comida!, Repainted room
Fiestas Patrias, Comida!, Repainted room
Winter
Auditing a website to measure how accessible it is takes on an extensive range of manual and automated tests to cover all aspects of usability.
Approaching the end of 2019 I look back on a year filled with some happy distractions away from the unending misery in UK politics and the climate crisis.
Updated slide deck for my talk on usability testing published on Notist https://noti.st/calumryan/j0tIxt/usability-testing
Form design principles: label your submit buttons with something other than "Submit". Clearly state what happens when a user clicks the button whether it's to move to the next step, signup to something, complete a purchase or send a message #a11y #usability
Slides from my talk last night on website usability testing @FrontEndLondon are now available on my website and also recently published to Notist https://noti.st/calumryan/C7aLla
📢 Upcoming talk in the pipeline on website usability testing... what are your approaches and experiences with website usability testing/research, good and bad? Reply/message me your thoughts/experiences ✏️
Approaching the end of 2018 I've been reflecting on a year filled with challenges and considering new opportunities professionally and personally.
Why do usability testing and what does it involve? https://calumryan.com/blog/usability-testing/
Testing usability of a digital product takes on a wide variety of test types and feedback processes that I hope to elaborate on in this article. Designers, developers, product owners and anyone with a vested interested should all partake in this process, from defining the tests to measuring the success and failures of different usability testing.
A little over three years since I first learnt about the IndieWeb movement I’ve grown to understand and participate further in its purpose: to bring people together in developing their own websites and control the content they author.
In this series of articles I’ll be looking at my current approach to project planning, estimating and delivery with reasoning why an agile planning and user-centered approach to web design and development is necessary.