Posted in Services by merav | 1,671 views | No Comments
scoreateetime.com is a new exciting service for golfers. It allows golfers to find tee-times available in their area. The guys from scoreateetime.com are very serious about usability and asked me to perform usability testing on their beta site. This is the second round of testing, the first one remains private.
Tasks:
What are the benefits of creating a profile?
Create a profile
Logout of your profile
You recently moved to Manitoba, and would like to find some information on the golf courses that are available in your area that are listed on ScoreATeeTime.com:
Find Selkirk Golf & Country Club
Locate the Course Description
Locate and go to Selkirk’s [...] read more »
Posted in Joomla by merav | 304 views | 1 Comment
Tags: joomla templates
Morph is a new and revolutionary template from JoomlaJunkie.com. It’s the first template I’ve seen that includes a component!
I had the pleasure of meeting founder Chris Rault at the 2008 CMS Expo. He is a very bright guy with some fantastic ideas for Joomla, and he’s determined to change the way we see and use Joomla templates. Chris asked me to perform usability testing on Morph BETA and I was very excited to do so.
I didn’t read any of the template’s documentations because I wanted my experience to be “fresh.”
That led to one unpleasant surprise. In this limited beta version, [...] read more »
Posted in Joomla by merav | 63 views | No Comments
A few months ago, Scott from TheMediationMind.com has asked me to perform Usability Testing on his site, and back then I found some major problems and the look and feel wasn’t quite there yet. Since then the site has improved dramatically but there are still some tweaks that need to be made.
Here are the 3 tasks Scott has asked me to perform:
Sign up to trial and then login and listen to meditation
Get to sonia choquettes page and listen to an audio and make it to the signup page for one of her events
Search for law of attraction and attempt to [...] read more »
Posted in Joomla by merav | 1,471 views | 6 Comments
Tags: jomsocial
I am a huge JomSocial fan. I use it all the time and enjoy almost every minute. But like any website and application JomSocial’s usability too has room for improvement. The mistakes aren’t huge but they are easily fixed.
There are empty fields on the profile page. Empty fields on the front end is neither attractive nor necessary. It’s best to show only the populated fields.
My links appear on other people’s profiles. If I am logged in and looking at someone’s profile, all my tabs appear at the top of the page. But it makes little sense to mix my stuff [...] read more »
Posted in Online Dating by merav | 62 views | No Comments
WorldFriends.tv is a social/dating site mainly for the Asian community. Founder Dominic has asked me to test the following 4 tasks:
Tasks:
Register (for free).
Upload photo
Purchase a paid subscription.
Invite their friends to register (for free) using the Invite feature.
Watch the usability test video
Video summary and suggestions:
Register
The logo should have a .tv in case they forget.
The most obvious thing is the “register” button, that’s good.
It’s telling me that there is an error before I even have a chance to enter the password/email verification
Maybe the most popular countries should be on top (Japan and USA)
Privacy and terms should not take to a new [...] read more »
Posted in Joomla by merav | 770 views | 1 Comment
Tags: jomsocial
JomSocial is a new exciting Joomla extension. Up until now we had to work with Community Builder which is buggy, hard to use and can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to fix (trust me, I’ve done that). From first look at JomSocial, it appears that it’s a HUGE quantum leap from Community Builder, starting from how easy it is to use (without reading the manual!), to the way the profile looks on the front end.
It still has some minor bugs and even more minor usability issues, but over all it’s a great start!This is certainly one of the best [...] read more »
Posted in Joomla by merav | 54 views | No Comments
Alledia.com are the leading Joomla SEO experts. They have a great blog with a lot of content and offer some much-needed SEO services to the growing Joomla community. I am familiar with their site, but was still able to find some very major problems and point them in the right direction.
Steve Burge of Alledia.com took the test results very seriously and immediately fixed many of the problems. That’s exactly the right reaction to a usability test. The criticism isn’t personal; it’s intended to help fix the “low hanging fruits” and improve your site quickly.
Tasks:
Read and subscribe to the blog.
Buy SEO [...] read more »
Posted in Online Dating by merav | 232 views | 1 Comment
Tags: match
I have been a user of Match.com for some time, and the site has a number of usability issues that have long bothered me. This list explains the ten biggest problems on the site that affect members.
Watch the usability test video:
Video summary and suggestions:
1. Some links look like text; some text looks like links that look like text.
Links should always look like links and text should always look like text. The link to the members’ profile on Match’s search results however doesn’t look like a link. In fact, it looks exactly the same as the heading text. On the [...] read more »
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Hibooth.com is a new site, currently in beta, that is offering a virtual booth for individuals and companies to present their services/products. Founder Ping has asked me to perform the following tasks:
Tasks:
Join as a business owner
Invite other businesses
Search and find certain business
Watch the usability test video:
Video summary and suggestions:
Overall look and feel:
Very clean, professional
Logo:
Clean logo, missing the “.com”
Tag line: Too small and also a bit ambiguous, needs some work.
Home page:
The home page contains a big image that has some text on top and bullet points. The text on top with the orange background is a bit too long, can be [...] read more »
Posted in Services by merav | 565 views | No Comments
Joanna Garzilli is “America’s Intuition Coach,” a TV host and a well-known psychic to the stars. She has also released a new book called “Unleash The Psychic In You.” Joanna is using WordPress for her site, which is a great start already. And because her site was pretty good to start with, I was able to focus on a basic SEO overview.
Tasks:
Improve opt-in rate.
Increase SEO, especially for the keyword “psychic.”
Make the site stickier and increase trust.
Watch the usability test video:
Video summary and suggestions:
Overall:
The site’s look and feel is clean and professional.
The logo is good.
I would like to see the [...] read more »
