Prototyping has become a popular design practice valued by customers and loved by user experience designers as a fast, efficient and fun way to visualise ideas. A prototype helps to understand and explore the possibilities and limitations that arise when they are built as a visual and interactive solution and tested on users.

 

180 people attended the first "Atlassian in Baltics" conference on the 28th of March in Tallinn Hilton Park Hotel.  There is a huge system around Atlassian, which consists of products, resources and assets for users. Our conference provided a glimpse into the Atlassian Ecosystem by showcasing just a few of its components and also built the local Atlassian community stronger.

In the second part of this series, we gave advice on what to keep in mind upon creating metrics and how to start creating a system.  In the final part we discuss metric formulas and calculations, explain how to interpret the results and what to do with the information.

 

HOW TO CALCULATE USABILITY SCORE?

 

Intranet was used mainly as a document repository or, at best, as a means for solving problems connected to internal communication, and making information exchange, processes and HR planning more effective. Today, however, many people expect a lot more from an intranet. Why is it so?

World Usability Day Tallinn is the #1 conference for User Experience professionals in Estonia and the largest UX-web- and interaction design event in Baltics. WUD Tallinn is accompanied by hands-on workshops and tutorials on the days before and after the main event. 

For the last 3 years, the number of participants has grown to almost 500 and consists of UX designers, UI designers, UX professionals, front-end developers, business analysts, marketers etc.

 

E-commerce has been growing an average of 25% a year globally and as many as 30% in Estonia. Many new e-traders are entering the market. To achieve success, traders are looking for the best technological solutions, spend a lot on web marketing and endeavour to offer the best customer experiences.

But which are the experiences that internet shoppers are looking for?

In the first part of “How to measure usability?", we explored the purpose and usefulness of metrics. In this article, we give advice on what to keep in mind upon picking metrics and how to start creating a system. The third part gives an overview of how to implement the metrics system and analyse the results.

One can analyse everything – data, things, processes, events etc. Depending on what is being analysed, the correct methodologies will be used. Without a thorough preparation, the analysis will not usually be successful. Every analysis should be done systematically. Analysis could, therefore, be defined as dividing the whole into connected pieces.

Services are everywhere around us. Every day we use public transport, go to cafés, use postal services etc. The services are created to satisfy the needs of people and are targeted for certain people who need these services.

In 2007, when Steve Jobs introduced the first-ever iPhone, he seamlessly used many different iPhone models (prototypes) in his presentation. The reason for that was simple: a single one of these iPhone could not perform every task and was not able to contain every single function of an actual iPhone.

Making the website’s visuals move is nothing new. Some time ago, people had to install Adobe Flash plug-ins to make the animations work.

There are various ways to measure usability. The most common methods include carrying out user surveys and/or polls, conducting user tests and measuring user statistics. Each method has its own important role and appropriate time in the process of measuring usability and product development as a whole. First of all, you should determine the purpose of measuring as it helps to choose the appropriate method or combination of methods.

 

What are usability metrics?