Mobile Application Usability Testing
Heuristics
Colorology Are we keeping color usage in our mind? Example: Red background color with orange color text sucks!
Help & Documentation?
Kill the dialogs with irrelevant information or any information that doesn't make sense
Recognition versus Recall Lets make the actions visible for users.
Error prevention? Can we do something to avoid errors which can be a better User eXperience?
Do we support undo and redo? This is for any accidental actions by users.
Consistency in usage of conventions?
Mobile [HUMAN INTERFACE GUIDELINES]
Feedback system: Users always need to have right to know what's going on when they perform actions.
Familiarity with users in terms of words, phrases, errors, messages! No usage of system terms.
User Journeys and Behavior
Abandoning the app based on server response time?
Users reading long articles?
E, 2G, 3G, 4G (LTE) connections How do users feel when they use app with different network speeds?
Muscle memory heuristic
Minimal straight-forward funtions?
Users don't have patience.
User is in rush?
Errors & Alerts
Readability Tests
Colors used?
Foreground and background color of fonts
Font styling and size?
What else? Think!
Search made easy!
Input Methods
Touch targets: size, placement, affordances or signifiers
Gestures
Making gestures usable
Usability of the horizontal swipe or horizontal navigation
Gesture ambiguity
Typing and mobile input-field design
App Functionality? What makes sense for mobile app?
Brainstorm commonly made actions by users on specific mobile app
Can we implement skeuomorphic designs?
Controls
Spinners, sliders, and other selectors
Carousels and carousel cues
Button and button placement
Modal dialogs and alerts
Progress indicators
Orientation Tests
Vertical
Horizontal
Call / SMS Interruption Tests
Contact
Location information, maps, locator forms
First Impression Report
Download?
Installability?
App Launch Performance?
Get Started Guide?
Emotions?
Angry?
Frustrated?
Happy?
Sad?
What the fuck?
Not so bad.
I love this app.
I will never use this app.
I cannot recommend this app.
Uninstallability?
App crashes?
Approaches?
User Testing / Focussed Groups?
Eye tracking software?
Multi cameras recording?
Document camera
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