I often get questions from people who are interested in the idea of website usability testing, but unsure of how they can involve testing in their design process. Based on our own experience, I can safely say that whatever stage you are in the process, even if your site has been live for years, it’s never a bad time to start website usability testing.
When you are first thinking of your designs and come up with sketches of your ideas, you can upload them to IntuitionHQ and see how your idea is going to work out. You can put questions as part of your tests, and coming soon we’re even adding the ability to get comments from your users at the end of your tests.
From Flickr user Rob Enslin
If you’ve got wireframes or prototypes you can test those as well. You can keep tweaking and optimising your designs to ensure it’s as usable as can be.
Even with the finished design you can keep testing to ensure everything is working as you and your users expect. You can keep making small changes, or just getting proof that is working well.
If you’d like to read more on this topic I’ve written a more in depth post at Spyre Studios so head on over and check it out. Any questions let us know in the comments.
The key thing to take away from this all is that it doesn’t matter where you are in the process, you can still get started with testing your sites. Testing will add value for you, and at the very least provide confirmation that your site is working well. If there are any problems or issues, it will help you to realise and rectify these. Whatever the result, it’s still good information for you to know and understand.
Remember, testing with IntuitionHQ costs just $9 a test, so why not get started testing your own sites today? Happy testing everyone.
