Usability testing

A collection of blog posts related to usability testing.

• User research, influencing decision makers and Figma sites

  11 May 2025

  A weeknote starting 5 May 2025.

• Our second round of user research

  14 February 2025

  A double weeknote starting 3 February 2025.

• A complicated prototype setup

  1 February 2025

  A weeknote starting 27 January 2025.

• Getting ready for usability testing the prototype

  26 January 2025

  A weeknote starting 20 January 2025.

• Quick prototyping ready for a busy new year

  20 December 2024

  Another double weeknote, starting 9 December 2024.

• Never half-ass two things

  24 November 2024

  A weeknote starting 18 November 2024.

• What makes a successful usability test?

  7 November 2024

  A weeknote starting 4 November 2024.

• Travelling for user research and design workshops

  3 November 2024

  A weeknote starting 28 October 2024.

• Weeknotes – series 07 episode 15

  20 April 2024

  Struggling with JavaScript, usability testing, and design systems.

• Weeknotes – series 07 episode 14

  14 April 2024

  Planning user research and getting the prototype ready.

• Weeknotes – series 03 episode 05

  20 May 2019

• Weeknotes – series 02 episode 03

  26 January 2019

• Introduction to interaction design in gov

  15 November 2018

  What's it like being an interaction designer in a UK government department?

• How improving typography can help us to meet user needs

  13 November 2018

  What is typography? What problems does good typography solve? How do we know poor typography is a real problem?

• Weeknotes – series 01 episode 03

  18 May 2018

  Featuring service design, accessible maths symbols and pizza.

• Weeknotes – series 01 episode 02

  12 May 2018

  Heatwave edition.