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20 creative ways to test your design

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 3:57 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's

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Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — a wireframing and prototyping app with built-in usability testing — where he develops in-app and online content for the wireframing and prototyping platform. To learn how to conduct 20 different types of usability tests, check out The Guide to Usability Testing. Tests that incorporate elements from one or more of the previous categories (scripted, decontextualized, natural tests) fall under the label of hybrid tests. These tests tend to lean towards capturing attitudinal and conceptual feedback, but nonetheless reveal insights that have very specific impact on the usability of the final design.…

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20 creative ways to test your design

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 3:57 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's

hybridtest
Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — a wireframing and prototyping app with built-in usability testing — where he develops in-app and online content for the wireframing and prototyping platform. To learn how to conduct 20 different types of usability tests, check out The Guide to Usability Testing. Tests that incorporate elements from one or more of the previous categories (scripted, decontextualized, natural tests) fall under the label of hybrid tests. These tests tend to lean towards capturing attitudinal and conceptual feedback, but nonetheless reveal insights that have very specific impact on the usability of the final design.…

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Giveaway: Choose your own Android smartwatch

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 3:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Offers

A smartwatch is the perfect accessory for any gadget aficionado. The latest crop of Android Wear-based devices for your wrist can deliver notifications from your favorite apps, alert you about weather, traffic and your next flight, guide you to your next destination and even send texts and set reminders with voice control. And they’re good-looking to boot. Because we’re bursting with holiday spirit, we’re giving away a premium smartwatch! Enter now to win and pick your prize: the Moto 360, the Samsung Gear 2 or the LG G Watch R. Just visit the Giveaway page and submit your email address…

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FlashChat: Easy, fast, anonymous chat with the people around you

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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This article is brought to you by FlashChat: chat freely with anyone on the same Wi-Fi network

Anonymous chat apps are all well and good, but without some way to make sure you have something in common, chatting with strangers quickly loses its appeal. That’s where FlashChat comes in. It lets you communicate with people on the same Wi-Fi network as you, anonymously. Whether you’re in an office, university campus, stadium, shop, airport, or anywhere else, you can have fun talking to new people who are close by. Getting set up is a breeze – you just open the app, choose a username and chat right away to other people on the same network. FlashChat is all…

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Plague, the ‘Tinder for information’, is addictive and its founders are onto something

Dec23
by on December 23, 2014 at 2:41 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews, Social Media

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Over the weekend I spent a bit of time with Plague, an app that our own Owen Williams recently described as a gamified version of Reddit, and I’m sure the developers have hit on something noteworthy here. It looks like others agree, as its user base is growing rapidly. Despite only a small amount of press coverage, Plague, which comes from a Lithuanian startup, is growing as virally as its unusual name would suggest. Deep Sea Marketing, which has previously developed a messaging app called Hipe and a photo-sharing app called We Heart Pics, tells us that Plague has acquired 50,000 users in three weeks, apparently growing now at…

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