5 Usability testing best practices you need to know | Maze

Usability best practices are vital to gathering accurate, ethical, actionable insights about your product—keeping these in mind will ensure you gather effective data, to inform your decision-making.

If testing goes unchecked, you risk negatively impacting participants, and influencing your results—not to mention, the final product. Consider what your main goals are, how best to gather data (+ any potential negative implications), and what principles will guide your research activities.

In this video, we’ll explore the 5 best practices you need to keep in mind when planning, running, and analyzing usability tests, so you can go on to run ethical and successful research sessions.

Hosted by Hilary, Education Lead @ Maze, this video is part of our series exploring all-things usability testing.

Check out the full 📚 Usability Testing Guides playlist here: https://buff.ly/3xj8loM

📓 Resources mentioned:
How to run a usability test:    • Usability testing 101: Types of usabi...  
UX research best practices: https://buff.ly/3jTmo13
5 Best practices for usability testing: https://buff.ly/3YKEYHv
Guide to inclusive design: https://buff.ly/3YsFg5Z
The best user research questions and how to ask them: https://buff.ly/3jTmKVr

⏱️ Video timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:33 - What is usability testing?
01:16 - Usability testing best practices
01:26 - Challenge assumptions
02:23 - Get consent
03:26 - Decide what metrics to measure
04:18 - Run a pilot test
05:24 - Be inclusive
06:02 - Recruit diverse participants
06:16 - Remote usability testing and inclusivity
06:55 - Wrap-up

💙 About Maze:
Maze is a continuous product discovery platform that empowers product teams to collect and consume user insights, continuously. With solutions for participant recruitment, product research, and reporting, Maze helps teams build the habit of continuous product discovery in a platform that enables everyone to run great research.

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