mobile usability testing


26
Sep 11

How to set up a mobile lab – by beleniq


5
Sep 11

TAP – how to create prototypes for iPhone/iPad

Now it”s easy gues from UNITiD found a way which can make your wireframes alive on iPad/iPhone.

TAP falls into the category of “Smoke-and-Mirrors”, where technology is used to create the illusion of a working product. With TAP we use the iOS web browser to display what is essentially a mini website with clickable images of the application interface. Having a click-through prototype is not so special in itself. But what makes this tool interesting for designers, is that without any coding, they can make a prototype that:

  • Runs full screen without the default Safari browsers navigation at the top and bottom of the screen.
  • Animates transitions between screens with effects like slide cube, dissolve, flip, pop, slide-up and swap.
  • Supports gestures like swipe left, right, up and down and change orientation of the device.
  • Caches the prototype on the device, so it loads instantly and responds as snappy as a native application.
  • Allows the designer to lay out the whole interface in Adobe Fireworks, a program likely familiar to many designers and to set the rest up through a simple web interface. No coding required.
  • Video playback and animated images can be integrated. A little bit of coding required

Technically, TAP is a library of files containing custom developed PHP and Javascript (JQtouch & JQuery) code that makes the prototype come to life.

Follow this link to see full description.


16
Nov 10

Mobile Usability Testing using Eye Tracking: Domino’s Pizza

Example of SMI system using the Domino’s mobile site to order a pizza on an iPhone


10
Nov 10

Opera Mobile emulator

Opera Mobile emulator is the desktop version of Opera’s smart phone browser. The Opera Mobile emulator renders pages as close as you can get to how it would look on a real phone. It can be paired with Opera Dragonfly for an effective testing environment before taking it to the physical phone. The Opera Mobile Widgets Emulator is included to aid developing Opera Widgets.

Download the Opera Mobile emulator


19
Jul 10

Nokia User experience training materials.

Nokia has published a UX Driven Development for Education v1.0 Beta

I must say they must have hired someone with UX background for this, because it is very good. Altough they didn’t write much about UCD and Agile in this document.

Contents:

  • What is User Experience?  Lecture 1
  • UX Concepting  Lecture 2
  • Interaction Design  Lecture 3
  • Graphic Design  Lecture 4
  • UX Evaluation  Lecture 5

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