March 2024
Beginner
1h 32m
English
on-demand course
Usability Testing for Non-UX Professionals: Connect with Users, Test and Improve Your Products, and Get Better at Your Job as a Product Manager, Developer, or Engineering Manager
with Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
In an ideal world, usability testing might be considered exclusively the job responsibility of UX designers or researchers. However, for many of us and for various reasons, that just isn’t a reality. No matter what the situation is, running basic usability tests is something everyone is completely capable of—and it comes with the bonus of making us better at our own jobs, as well, by better understanding our users.
In this course, we’ll discuss finding participants, thinking through the testing logistics, writing and facilitating a usability test, and reviewing the data. Each learner will get the chance to write a usability testing script for a feature in their own website or application that they’d like to test. Then, they’ll be challenged to practice usability tests with those scripts to get hands-on experience facilitating tests. Learners will leave this course feeling empowered and confident to start a usability testing program at their own workplace!
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it- Learn what is included during a usability test and what needs to be considered during the planning stage.
- Understand the benefits of usability testing and how to use the data gathered to improve the product.
- Practice writing and running usability tests and feel confident working with real users.
- You’re a developer, product manager, engineering manager, or other non-UX person in the tech industry who wants to start or participate in a usability testing program for your product.
Prerequisites:
- Fluent English language understanding (including basic/common tech industry terms, ie. UX/UI, minimum viable product, feature, user flow, etc)
Recommended follow-up:
- Watch Mapping the User Experience (video)
- Watch Designing with Empathy (video)
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Watch now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.