Usability Testing

Usability testing is a user-centered interaction design that is used to evaluate a product by conducting it on users. It gives direct input on how real users use the system, it can be an irreplaceable usability practice. These experts use different methods to evaluate a user interface without involving users, usability research methods, there is an alternative.

Its aim is to meet the test that measures a person's ability to focus on the product. Examples of products that commonly benefit from usability testing are foods, consumer products, web sites or web applications, computer interfaces, documents, and devices are available. While trying to create public policies, human-computer interaction studies of the test, the use of a particular object or set of objects, or simply measuring.

You can show you how to correct the problems of usability testing in a usability test report along with practical advice on the design of digital videos are available for each testing session.

“Userfocus' report was packed with action-oriented recommendations, with specific ideas on how to improve the usability of our site.”

– Jason Lansell, Thomas Cook UK.

Usability testing has been a formal subject of academic instruction in different disciplines.

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Technical Blogging

                                                      

Blogs are used to express our thoughts and gives us a place to share our opinions and helps others to make use of it. Blog is a wonderful tool to establish you as an expert in a field or a topic. For example, if you try to get a job in a particular field or if you hope to publish a book on a particular topic of your expertise, with the help of blogging, we can create a platform that can expand your online presence.

Blogging also helps to expand your professional career by using networking opportunities. Through blogs, you are able to establish and achieve your online reach with a wider audience. There are blogs about business and employment opportunities that can help companies expose their content to a broader audience. For example, a business consultant can start a blog to get more exposure by which his/her work and skills can be showcased to get new customers. Likewise, a middle management employee of a large company is able to demonstrate his knowledge and expertise by starting a blog by which executives, hiring managers, and other peers at work will be able to know more about his skills. His efforts at social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter and his blogging efforts, in particular, could lead to exciting new opportunities.

Technical blogs are helpful in sharing your knowledge and skills on a specific topic. Some examples include, a how-to blog focused particularly on educating people on topics such as how to start a successful career and how to use search engine optimization to increase web traffic. It doesn't matter what topic a  blogger is writing about as long as the purpose of the blog is to share some information so that someone else can benefit from that information.

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QR Code

QR code for my LinkedIn profile 

The QR Code is a great tool to share information with the use of a simple graphic. Using the QR code, you can direct an employer to your resume or LinkedIn profile. In addition, this can also be used offer discount in a direct mail piece, business card or postcard.

QR codes come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR code is short for Quick Response (they can be read quickly by a cell phone). You can take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it to use for your cell phone. You will soon be on a billboard , a web page or one of the sleeves. QR codes can be found in newspaper ads also . Once it is in our mobile device, it may give us the details about that business  by allowing users to search for nearby locations. For example it can be used as coupons from restaurants, which can be used other location of that restaurants.

One of the fastest ways to get QR code is at QR Stuff (QRStuff.com). They offer it as free service or for a price, you can get scan analytics as well. If you are looking for something more stylish or custom QR codes, you can design codes in the same way as you do for designs of a logo.

Some of the potential issues of QR Codes are:

Before you get into this new trend, be aware of some of potential issues with QR codes.  For example, spammers are now using QR codes as a way to flood smartphones with spams. Hackers and scammers uses them to disguise malware downloads and force your phone to send premium text messages.  As some QR code scanners use shortened URLs, there’s currently no way of knowing  where those URLs could direct us. So, like you use your computer, it’s important to know how your QR codes work and what content is being downloaders and it is  coming from a trusted source.

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