At next weekend’s UXCampVancouver, Elizabeth Snowden will be giving a talk on remote usability methods. Check it out if you’re in the area! Update: Sold out!
Writing Archive
22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools
Over at MarketingProfs’ 22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools series, our recruiting tool Ethnio gets a shout-out. Here are the pros and cons they mention: Pros: Enables usability researchers to acquire actual users from the website for testing. Cons: Researchers must be available when a participant response is received, and the tool is for [...]
NEOUPA: Remote Usability Studies event
The Northeast Ohio Usability Professionals Association (NEOUPA) recently put on an event called “Remote usability studies: Get great results while saving time and money“. Quoth Jason Holmes of American Greetings, co-organizer of the event (along with Aaron Rosenberg): The NEOUPA event was great. Lots of interest, lots of enthusiasm. We had about 45 people there, [...]
UX Brighton Round-up
Last week’s UX Brighton event, “Remote Research: a 360-degree View“, covered all sorts of fun remote user research tools and companies, including Webnographer (automated tool), Pidoco (wireframe testing), Flow (agency), and Ethnolabs (automated cross-platform data aggregation). Here are the best write-ups: Steve Bromley: In the heated Q&A session after, it was discussed at length that [...]
Escape The Lab – Aug. 26
Want to learn remote research? Bolt | Peters is hosting a one-day workshop on August 26th, and you’re invited. Give us a day and we can teach you all the rocket surgery you need to conduct qualitative studies the real-time, native environment way. Date: Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Time: 9am – 4:30pm. Sign-in starts at [...]
Remote Research Software and Web Apps
The following is a list of software resources and web apps which can be used for various types of remote research, both moderated and unmoderated/automated. Moderated Tools UserVue by TechSmith. This is our trusty stand-by for moderated one-on-one interviews. Enables you to view a participant’s screen in real-time while talking to them on the phone. [...]