Yesterday we had the pleasure of speaking at the Tehnopol Startup Incubator in Tallinn. The event was part of the monthly Morning Coffee series and sadly the last one for the next couple of months. The series is going on a much-deserved summer break.

Based on the experience from the Gamefounders game accelerator, here are 5 of the most frequent game usability testing mistakes and how to avoid them!

And also for everyone else who have realized that they need the help of awesome UX designers and researchers! The largest UX design company in Estonia, Trinidad Consulting is now one of the companies you can turn to when funds are low, but the idea is great!.

Trinidad Consulting is now a proud member of the international UX research network UX Fellows which unites the best UX agencies in the world!

Some weeks ago we got an email from an Serbian researcher Vera Djuraskovic with a rather peculiar idea. Vera suggested that she would like to volunteer to translate the service page of our website into her native language of Serbo-Croatian. Naturally we were a bit skeptical at first, thinking that this must be a spammy robot and not a real person, but soon we realized we were wrong. 

Edgar Strods from the Mail.Ru Group gave a quick rundown of the Russian social networks at the Intergame 2013 game conference. He also shared some stunning insights about the social games in Russia

Matteo Monari from BizUp gave a really nice presentation about the importance of SEO in game websites. Read the article to find out the

Malte Behrmann from EGDF gave us some highly interesting statistics about the European gaming industry and game development studios.

Cheap storage and a general lack of data often leads to less sophisticated statistical techniques when looking for insights while more data makes it easier to spot true trends and anomalies.

Lets talk about big data. Having a lot of different data points means you won`t have to normalize your findings and make any assumptions. Having less data will force youto make a lot of hard to verify assumptions.

Example - AB testing
 

Oleg Pridiuk from Unity shared some genius insights on what makes a good game a blazing success story and a perfect game.

The psychology of gamification explained in a simple way. Read more and you will also find some highly useful tips on game design. Come on, click me!

Julian Migura from BoaCompra shared us some interesting points about game mechanics at the Intergame 2013 game conference.