Is your product user-friendly? Take these steps to find out

Whether it's software, technical documentation, a cell phone, ora refrigerator, your customer wants — no, expects —your product to be easy to use. This fully revised handbook, aleading resource since 1994, provides clear, step-by-stepguidelines to help you test your product for usability. Completelyupdated with current industry best practices and more variedexamples, it can give you that all-important marketplace advantage:products that perform the way users expect.

• Learn to recognize factors that limit usability

• Decide whether testing should occur in a lab setting or at thesite where the product is used

• Set up a test plan to assess goals for your product'susability

• Choose and train effective test moderators

• Decide on the best way to collect and review data

• Report the results and make recommendations

• Learn user-centered design principles and practices — thecontext for usability testing

• Reap the benefits of templates, tables, models, case studies,and other tools of the trade

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