Usability Testing or UI/UX Testing

A Usability study usability testing or UI/UX testing is a research method for assessing how easy it is for participants to complete the important tasks in a design. During a usability study, participants are provided the designs/products and researchers follow participants when they interact with the product/design. All the feedback from the users is then collected and worked upon.

The user’s feedback helps the design team make important improvements to the user interface and user experience. During the design process, usability studies can take place at different stages:

• Stage I (Conceptual testing): If you’ve got an initial idea you can conduct a usability study, this would be like a basic prototype that is just a little interactive. this is called concept testing.
• Stage II: You can also conduct a usability study when you have an interactive prototype. This is where most of the designers conduct a study because it gives the design team insight on what needs to be revised or added before the product launches.
• Stage III: You can even conduct a usability study with a product when it is complete. This is done when you may want to change a feature of the product or test if the product is usable with a specific group of people.

In this fast-happening world, every business and every team wants to release the next update or the next application as soon as possible, because of this teams or UI/UX designers often miss out on a very important thing – properly testing the design. But why does this even matter? who focuses on testing anyways? can the users not give us feedback after release rather than taking feedback through testing? These are the questions designers ask and in this article, we will answer these questions.

In this article, we will discuss the need for testing in UI/UX, why it is so important, and why you must add it to your UI/UX workflow if you haven’t. But before that, we will start from the basics about what Usability testing or UI/UX testing is.