Abstract
Usability testing need not be costly and time-consuming
to be effective. Discount usability testing provides a set of
cheap, fast and easy to apply techniques including think
aloud, card sorting, walkthroughs, scenarios and heuristic
evaluation. These methods can reveal major and minor
usability issues in a system at a low cost. Although it is an
advantage, evaluators need not be usability experts. These
methods can be utilized early in the design cycle or during
the implementation phase. In an Agile setting, discount
usability testing works effectively because of the iterative
nature of this model. Discount methods tend to find
superficial problems; thus they usually are not suitable for
in-depth usability studies. Discount usability testing is not a
replacement of traditional usability testing, but can be very
advantageous compared to doing nothing.
Refereed
No
