2.28 Incorporate Usability Testing Into Each Minor Release-Cycle
Researching a product or service and how it is used over time allows you to iterate and ensure the features and functionality being offered match how user-needs change over time. Doing so will help you reduce code redundancy further and reduce emissions through optimization.
Criteria
- Usability Testing: Usability testing has been incorporated into product cycles and the impact of these tests is routinely measured for future releases.
Impact
Medium
Effort
Medium
Benefits
- Environmental:
When visitors can quickly and easily accomplish tasks or access information, this reduces the energy they burn searching for answers. - Accessibility:
Visitor feedback from people with disabilities can inform key improvements within the product or service, which will ensure your website or application can be used by the widest possible audience.
GRI
- materials: Medium
- energy: Medium
- water: Medium
- emissions: Medium
Example
- Here is a great usability testing starter kit that includes templates.
Resources
- A Comprehensive Guide To User Testing
- [AFNOR] Spec 5.4.6 and 5.4.7 (French)
- Digital Eco-Design: Test, assess and maintain
- [GPFEDS] 1.4 – Strategy (Regular Reviews) (PDF)
- GreenIT (French) 4014 – S’assurer que les parcours utilisateurs permettent de réaliser leur action prévue
- Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines (PDF)
- Sustainable UX is more than reducing your website’s footprint
- United Nations [SDGS] Goal 1 (Poverty)
- United Nations [SDGS] Goal 3 (Health & Well-being)
- United Nations [SDGS] Goal 16 (Sustainable Society)
- Usability testing
- Usability Testing 101
- UX: Best Practices For Developers