Remote Usability Testing Experience – Generating Actionable Recommendations

Mark Thompson-Kolar’s summer was a little different than most.  He spent it at Cengage Learning as an intern doing usability testing.  He shared his experience and what he learned from it with the Refresh Detroit audience.

Mark Thompson-KolarMark isn’t your typical student.  He’s been a newspaper editor, designer and manager for 18 years at daily news media companies in Michigan and Indiana.   He’s currently a master’s student at the University of Michigan in the School of Information studying information architecture, interface usability and content strategy. Continue reading “Remote Usability Testing Experience – Generating Actionable Recommendations” →

September 22, 2009: Putting the User First, Remotely

Join us for our next meeting where Mark Thompson-Kolar will discuss “Putting the user first, remotely” at Cengage Learning … and your company.

In today’s era of agile methods — when software is developed quickly in sprints and ease of use often is crucial for success in a fierce marketplace — companies of all sizes benefit from hearing users’ input early and often. Smaller-scale, remote user testing can give firms of any size the ability to efficiently and effectively gather vital user-experience information without spending a lot of money or time. Continue reading “September 22, 2009: Putting the User First, Remotely” →

June 2010 Meeting Recap: Drupal – All the cool kids are doing it

Drupal is an open source content management solution that is being used by a growing number of high profile web sites. Refresh-Detroit was lucky to get three Drupal experts to tell us more about it.

Brad Czerniak, Digital Resources Developer at Canton Public Library, started off with a lighthearted overview of what Drupal is… the answer to a lot of web problems including: