Quintessential List of Human Factors Services
1. Training for Developer / Project Manager "What is Usability?"
a. Usability Workshop ‘x’ days, includes design, code, test the interface, report on the test, decide on what to do with test results – a simulation
b. of the current process.
c. What is the Usability Process? How does this fit into Rational Rose?
2. Baseline testing for current application / system
3. Competitive Analysis
4. Create User definition, demographics, user modeling
5. Perform Task and/or process analysis
6. Perform an Environmental Analysis
7. Contribute to Requirements Gathering. Analyze data gathered.
8. Create ‘Use case’
9. Conduct ‘needs analysis’
10. Create usability goals for a project. (example: User Satisfaction of 1.4 with a test completion rate of 88% out of 100% complete)
11. Review Project Specification and screen layouts for compliance to
12. ISO 9241 standards and sound GUI design principles.
13. GUI Design and Consultation
a. Provide GUI Standard and Checklist by operating system
b. Prototyping
c. Error Conditions
d. Help text design and definition
e. Code Reuse
3. Metrics
4. Create questionnaires and appropriate measures and point scales
5. Round tables
a. For analysis
b. Review of design or project
c. Iterative User session
6. Data collection and analysis
7. Tests
a. Formal (tests are done with one subject at a time)
b. Informal (multiple participants in a session. i.e., round tables)
8. Reports
Published using the APA guidelines for test reports where humans are test subjects
Quintessential List of Human Factors Services.doc (c) A Y Oskarsdottir 1984 - 2013
a. Usability Workshop ‘x’ days, includes design, code, test the interface, report on the test, decide on what to do with test results – a simulation
b. of the current process.
c. What is the Usability Process? How does this fit into Rational Rose?
2. Baseline testing for current application / system
3. Competitive Analysis
4. Create User definition, demographics, user modeling
5. Perform Task and/or process analysis
6. Perform an Environmental Analysis
7. Contribute to Requirements Gathering. Analyze data gathered.
8. Create ‘Use case’
9. Conduct ‘needs analysis’
10. Create usability goals for a project. (example: User Satisfaction of 1.4 with a test completion rate of 88% out of 100% complete)
11. Review Project Specification and screen layouts for compliance to
12. ISO 9241 standards and sound GUI design principles.
13. GUI Design and Consultation
a. Provide GUI Standard and Checklist by operating system
b. Prototyping
c. Error Conditions
d. Help text design and definition
e. Code Reuse
3. Metrics
4. Create questionnaires and appropriate measures and point scales
5. Round tables
a. For analysis
b. Review of design or project
c. Iterative User session
6. Data collection and analysis
7. Tests
a. Formal (tests are done with one subject at a time)
b. Informal (multiple participants in a session. i.e., round tables)
8. Reports
Published using the APA guidelines for test reports where humans are test subjects
Quintessential List of Human Factors Services.doc (c) A Y Oskarsdottir 1984 - 2013