The new year is as good a time as any to review and improve the way you work. With a good user experience now widely seen as the key attribute of many high-tech products, it makes sense to review your own products to see how you can give them that user experience edge.
Here are 20 quick, simple and virtually free ideas you can apply in 2012
- Run a usability test
- Improve your navigation
- Review your user guidance
- Refine the UX vision
- Launch a survey
- Identify your top 5 red routes
- Describe your primary user
- Run a cognitive walk through
- Measure yourself against best practice
- Review your mobile channel
- Stand on the shoulders of giants
- Define a user experience objective
- Deign a paper prototype
- Make a site visit
- Take your user's perspective
- Think beyond the obvious
- Review your visual design
- Evaluate your error messages
- Audit your system for accessibility
- Embed usability into your company's processes
