Comments on: Practicing What I Preach! User Testing my Course Materials http://www.thinklikeauser.com/practicing-what-i-preach-user-testing-my-course-materials/ how to create a professional, profitable business website Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:13:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: World Usability Day – Preparations Are Under Way | Think Like a User http://www.thinklikeauser.com/practicing-what-i-preach-user-testing-my-course-materials/comment-page-1/#comment-252 World Usability Day – Preparations Are Under Way | Think Like a User Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:18:54 +0000 http://www.thinklikeauser.com/?p=1110#comment-252 [...] During my consultancy visit, I am going to show the site owners how to review competitor websites and assess their strengths and weaknesses – something I think is vital to online success. There are some more local companies I could have included in my research, but I didn’t think they had a sufficiently good website to use as candidates for teaching competitive review techniques. (I teach competitive review techniques in my usability course.) [...] [...] During my consultancy visit, I am going to show the site owners how to review competitor websites and assess their strengths and weaknesses – something I think is vital to online success. There are some more local companies I could have included in my research, but I didn’t think they had a sufficiently good website to use as candidates for teaching competitive review techniques. (I teach competitive review techniques in my usability course.) [...]

]]> By: Colette Mason http://www.thinklikeauser.com/practicing-what-i-preach-user-testing-my-course-materials/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Colette Mason Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:11:03 +0000 http://www.thinklikeauser.com/?p=1110#comment-221 An interesting point has come up - the transcript makes the course look more comprehensive when it arrives, but quickly becomes an ordeal if you have to read it - obviously what works in audio format will be experienced differently in print. I think I shall rework the transcript into a summary of the video content instead, as a lot of the teaching is done by examples from real websites to get the point across quickly. Looking forward to the next set of comments! Thanks reviewers, you know who you are :) An interesting point has come up – the transcript makes the course look more comprehensive when it arrives, but quickly becomes an ordeal if you have to read it – obviously what works in audio format will be experienced differently in print.

I think I shall rework the transcript into a summary of the video content instead, as a lot of the teaching is done by examples from real websites to get the point across quickly.

Looking forward to the next set of comments! Thanks reviewers, you know who you are :)

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