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	<title>Perfetti Media &#187; usability testing</title>
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		<title>Usability Tests in a Nutshell, Part 1: Planning your test</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of my clients come to me requesting my usability testing consulting services. One of the reasons they reach out to me is because they think usability testing must be a complex and scientific process. As a result, they'd prefer to have an outside consultant conduct their tests.

The first thing I tell my clients is that usability testing is not a complicated process. It's a technique anyone can learn with education and lots of practice.]]></description>
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		<title>Is usability testing necessary?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over a decade, I've consistently told design teams that the most effective way to ensure they build usability products is to start incorporating usability tests into their process. But what about the teams that do a good job of incorporating user research into their design process? Is it always necessary for them to conduct usability tests? I've come to the conclusion that usability testing isn't always necessary. ]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices for Highly Successful Development Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from the highly informative (and fun) User Interface Conference. At the conference, I taught the full-day seminar, Product Usability: Survival Techniques, sharing the results of years of research examining how successful development teams incorporate usability practices into their process. As part of the day, I share several best practices including:
1. Usability test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5-Second Tests Assess Your Site&#8217;s Most Important Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On your site, the content page is the user&#8217;s most frequent final destination.   This page contains the information the user came to the site to find. Sites   often have hundreds, if not thousands (and in some cases, millions) of these   critical pages.
How can design teams be confident their content [...]]]></description>
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