Yahoo Personals Usability Testing Report
October 11, 2008Posted in Online Dating by merav | No Comments
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Yahoo! Personals is one of the most popular dating sites on the Web. Because I am familiar with this site, the test is not 100 percent accurate, but I tried to focus on registering to the site as a user who doesn’t already own a Yahoo! account. I determined five tasks: Register to the dating site. Subscribe (pay) to join the dating site. View Who’s Online in my area. Send an email to a member. View my sent email and discover its status. Because of some of the difficulties I encountered on the site, all of those tasks took too long to complete so I decided to [...] read more »
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