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Chalkmark

Do people know where to click? Quickly run a test on your UI prototypes to answer any nagging questions about usability.

One task, one image and one click reveals powerful insights to help you tweak navigation and layout. For each task you get a heatmap to show the concentration of clicks. Very handy as evidence or for opening a can of worms!
(Link: Chalkmark)

ClickTale | Web Analytics by ClickTale | Visitor Movies, Heatmaps & Form Analytics

ClickTale delivers innovative In-Page Web Analytics that reveal the mystery of what visitors actually do inside website pages, allowing you to analyze and optimize website performance and usability. Our unique solution provides movies of your visitors’ actual browsing sessions, heatmaps of aggregate behavior inside the web page, and advanced behavioral analytics. ClickTale fills a gap left by traditional web analytics that only measures activity between pages.
(Link: ClickTale | Web Analytics by ClickTale | Visitor Movies, Heatmaps & Form Analytics)

UserTesting.com – Low cost usability testing

UserTesting.com provides the fastest and cheapest usability testing on the market. We give website owners access to a network of pre-screened users who are articulate and observant and who meet specified demographics. With UserTesting.com, website owners can request that one or more users attempt to complete a task on their website. Users, speaking their thoughts as they browse, will have their screens and voices recorded. The resulting videos will immediately be made available online for the website owners to watch. Thus, the website owner gets to see their site with “fresh eyes.”
(Link: UserTesting.com – Low cost usability testing)

fivesecondtest

A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.
(Link: fivesecondtest)

userfly — Web usability testing made easy.

userfly.com provides instantaneous web user studies by recording user visits and letting you play them back to see every mouse movement, click, and form interaction. Conducting a user study doesn’t have to be expensive or a logistic nightmare. With userfly.com you can perform simple and cheap user testing with your real users. And it only takes one minute to set up!
(Link: userfly — Web usability testing made easy.)

Jakob Nielsen – Stop Password Masking

When you make it hard for users to enter passwords you create two problems — one of which actually lowers security:
* Users make more errors when they can’t see what they’re typing while filling in a form. They therefore feel less confident. This double degradation of the user experience means that people are more likely to give up and never log in to your site at all, leading to lost business. (Or, in the case of intranets, increased support calls.)
* The more uncertain users feel about typing passwords, the more likely they are to (a) employ overly simple passwords and/or (b) copy-paste passwords from a file on their computer. Both behaviors lead to a true loss of security.
(Link: Jakob Nielsen – Stop Password Masking)

Notable | Easiest way for teams to provide feedback on websites.

Quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser.

Notable helps your team collaborate through visual feedback on screenshots, via a chaos-free process so that everyone can express their opinion.
(Link: Notable | Easiest way for teams to provide feedback on websites.)

Use It Better – tool for testing usability on Adobe Flash websites

Use it Better is an online tool for testing & analysing user experience and usability on Adobe Flash websites
(Link: Use It Better – tool for testing usability on Adobe Flash websites)

Free UX Templates – zef[a]media

The templates are derived from the User Experience toolkit I designed for the DUX team at Provoke. So we’ve given you the basic tools – it’s now up to you to do the magic with the actual user experience.
(Link: Free UX Templates – zef[a]media)

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