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		<title>Video: Adventurous Usability Techniques for the Seasoned Pro</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christine Perfetti Earlier this year, I was thrilled to present at the Webstock 2011 Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. In addition to teaching the Usability Bootcamp workshop, I presented my short presentation, Adventurous Usability Techniques for the Seasoned Pro. Thanks to the fantastic organizers of Webstock, you can now watch the video of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss my talk at the Confab Conference? Join me for a free online tutorial on July 14th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christine Perfetti This May, I was thrilled to present at Confab, Brain Traffic&#39;s wonderful conference for content strategists. In my presentation, I shared techniques that content strategists can start using immediately to assess how well their work impacts a design or product&#39;s success. If you couldn&#39;t attend this fantastic conference, you can still hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 24th Free Online Tutorial: Advanced Usability Techniques for the Seasoned Pro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christine Perfetti Usability research is pretty straight forward. Find some users, put them in front of a design, have them execute a task or two, take some notes, write a report, and call it a night, right? Not quite. There are many advanced techniques which, when implemented effectively, can drastically improve the success of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robust personas don&#8217;t guarantee success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Adaptive Path&#39;s Todd Wilkins wrote an excellent blog post on Avoiding Half-Baked Personas. In his post, Todd warns design teams that personas based on fiction can lead to misguided design decisions. Todd writes: I&#8217;ve written about the tension between truth and fiction in personas before. In that tension is the power of personas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Bringing Usability Testing Into Your Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great folks at Above the Fold Design recently interviewed Christine Perfetti about the benefits of usability testing and ways to get teams immersed in the research. Here&#39;s an excerpt: How do you get stakeholders excited about usability testing? Fortunately, these days many more clients come to me already excited, but of course, there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Passionate Users: An Interview with Josh Porter, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christine Perfetti &#8211; September 20, 2010 Social web sites and applications are everywhere: Facebook, YouTube, Craigslist, and Digg are just a few of the web sites taking advantage of the power of the Social Web. Social web sites are the fastest growing properties on the web for good reason: they connect people, motivate, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 23rd Free Online Tutorial: Facilitating a Usability Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christine Perfetti Many of our clients come to us requesting usability testing consulting services. One of the reasons they reach out to us is because they think usability testing must be a complex and scientific process. As a result, they&#39;d prefer to have an outside consulting company conduct their tests. The first thing I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October Workshops: Designing for the Social Web and Paper Prototyping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#39;m super excited to announce Perfetti Media will be offering two new workshops this October in Boston, Massachusetts. The feedback for our first workshop, the Usability Bootcamp, was excellent and we&#39;re pleased to be bringing these latest topics to you. On October 25th, my good friend Joshua Porter, will be presenting the one-day workshop, Designing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Passionate Users: An Interview with Josh Porter, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christine Perfetti &#8211; August 25, 2010 Social web sites and applications are everywhere: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, YouTube, Craigslist, and Digg are just a few of the web sites taking advantage of the power of the Social Web. Web sites and applications that incorporate social features are the fastest growing properties on the web for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Usability Tests in a Nutshell, Part 3: Creating Tasks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Perfetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Christine Perfetti &#8211; June 7, 2010 The tasks you create for a usability study are essential for gathering the right data. The tasks determine what you&#39;ll test and impacts what parts of the design your team fixes. If you give users the wrong tasks, you risk focusing on the wrong parts of the design [...]]]></description>
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