This document provides tips for usability testing from a usability specialist at Skyscanner. Some key tips include:
- Conduct small, frequent usability tests with around 6 participants rather than large lab studies
- There is no single best way to do usability testing and you have to sacrifice aspects of the process
- Remember that participants are not like real users in the way they will use the product
- Expect that the initial design will have problems and be prepared to iterate based on test findings
Remote UX Research Videos of real people interacting with your brand, regardless of device or location.
68% Rockefeller Corporation of users give up because they think you don’t care about them.
Beware of Multi Level Lesson one
Poorly organized information • Hover tunnels = early collapsing • Inconsistent triggers
Multi Level Navs • Don’t rely on the back button • Labels help • Remember context
Links should look like Lesson two
Navigating through a site shouldn’t be a process of trial and error. Links
Links • Difficult to discern what is or is not a link • Missing click history • Inconsistent link styling in the same view
More payment options Lesson three
UX Archive
Payment options • Optimize existing checkout flows • Implement a virtual wallet • Don’t forget trust
Not all icons are Lesson four
Drag or expand? http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/lukew/2919
http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/lukew/2919
Icons • Consider context • Use tooltips • Try your designs out with real users
Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don’t have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience. ” “ Jakob Nielsen User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group
Social security matters Lesson five So does copy!
Social privacy matters Lesson five
Social privacy • Be transparent • Make your privacy policy accessible • Look for serendipitous moments of interaction
Advertising lacks Lesson six
Consistent copy and images • Continue the conversation from ad to landing page • Keep the messages simple • Work with marketing or advertising teams
Categorization is Lesson seven
There’s no perfect way to categorize pages or products (but there’s a right way to do it). Categorization
Focus on building intuitive experiences
A mental model is what the user believes about the system at hand. ” “ Jakob Nielsen User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group
Learn from your users • Improve mental models • Add cross-references • Solve for your primary audience(s) • Make sure your search works Categorization
Multi-level navs aren’t user friendly Mega menus and clickable menus help create a better experience for your users. Links should look like links Tried and true link conventions from the early days of the web are still the most effective ways to format your links. Consider more payment options Virtual wallet services are a great way to make checking out easier and more secure. Not all icons are universal Test users for comprehension and use tool tips to describe your most important icons.
Introduction to Usability Testing: The DIY Approach - GA, London January 13th...Evgenia (Jenny) Grinblo
The slides from my General Assembly workshop on January 13th, 2013 (https://generalassemb.ly/education/introduction-to-usability-testing-the-diy-approach)
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Usability testing can quickly uncover areas of an interface that frustrate users and hurt business goals but many teams put it off due to budget, time, or training concerns.
This workshops will take you through a do-it-yourself approach to usability testing. We'll cover the basics (benefits, recruiting, and how to plan a test), learn how to facilitate a test to get reliable results, and how to use the testing results to move usability improvements forward. You'll walk away with the tools to hold a complete usability testing right away.
TAKEAWAYS
Learn why and when to hold usability testing
Learn practical tools and methods to overcome time, budget or training concerns that block user testing from happening
Shift the conversation from opinions and hunches to proven usability problems that your team can solve together
Remote UX Research Videos of real people interacting with your brand, regardless of device or location.
68% Rockefeller Corporation of users give up because they think you don’t care about them.
Beware of Multi Level Lesson one
Poorly organized information • Hover tunnels = early collapsing • Inconsistent triggers
Multi Level Navs • Don’t rely on the back button • Labels help • Remember context
Links should look like Lesson two
Navigating through a site shouldn’t be a process of trial and error. Links
Links • Difficult to discern what is or is not a link • Missing click history • Inconsistent link styling in the same view
More payment options Lesson three
UX Archive
Payment options • Optimize existing checkout flows • Implement a virtual wallet • Don’t forget trust
Not all icons are Lesson four
Drag or expand? http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/lukew/2919
http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/lukew/2919
Icons • Consider context • Use tooltips • Try your designs out with real users
Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don’t have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience. ” “ Jakob Nielsen User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group
Social security matters Lesson five So does copy!
Social privacy matters Lesson five
Social privacy • Be transparent • Make your privacy policy accessible • Look for serendipitous moments of interaction
Advertising lacks Lesson six
Consistent copy and images • Continue the conversation from ad to landing page • Keep the messages simple • Work with marketing or advertising teams
Categorization is Lesson seven
There’s no perfect way to categorize pages or products (but there’s a right way to do it). Categorization
Focus on building intuitive experiences
A mental model is what the user believes about the system at hand. ” “ Jakob Nielsen User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group
Learn from your users • Improve mental models • Add cross-references • Solve for your primary audience(s) • Make sure your search works Categorization
Multi-level navs aren’t user friendly Mega menus and clickable menus help create a better experience for your users. Links should look like links Tried and true link conventions from the early days of the web are still the most effective ways to format your links. Consider more payment options Virtual wallet services are a great way to make checking out easier and more secure. Not all icons are universal Test users for comprehension and use tool tips to describe your most important icons.
Introduction to Usability Testing: The DIY Approach - GA, London January 13th...Evgenia (Jenny) Grinblo
The slides from my General Assembly workshop on January 13th, 2013 (https://generalassemb.ly/education/introduction-to-usability-testing-the-diy-approach)
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
Usability testing can quickly uncover areas of an interface that frustrate users and hurt business goals but many teams put it off due to budget, time, or training concerns.
This workshops will take you through a do-it-yourself approach to usability testing. We'll cover the basics (benefits, recruiting, and how to plan a test), learn how to facilitate a test to get reliable results, and how to use the testing results to move usability improvements forward. You'll walk away with the tools to hold a complete usability testing right away.
TAKEAWAYS
Learn why and when to hold usability testing
Learn practical tools and methods to overcome time, budget or training concerns that block user testing from happening
Shift the conversation from opinions and hunches to proven usability problems that your team can solve together
Reduce Product Failures While Boosting Conversion RatesUserZoom
What would a 5% improvement in your website’s conversion rates make to your bottom line? If you’re not doing regular usability testing, then you’re probably leaving at least that value on the table. Join Peter Hughes in this free webinar sponsored by UserZoom and UXPA to find out how you can reduce product failures while boosting conversion rates.
Uncovering Need and Validating Ideas with UserTesting by Marieke McCloskeyUserTesting
To build a successful product, a good idea and a skilled team are not enough. You also need to validate your product ideas with your target market. In this webinar, Marieke McCloskey, Director of Research at UserTesting, shares advice on how to build products that people love by spending time in the product discovery phase understanding who your users are, what they need, and how they might use and react to your product. Marieke shares fast and practical ways to understand your customers and validate design concepts through remote research. She also covers the impact of getting early feedback on product ideas and then continuously testing your prototypes.
Usability vs. User Experience: What's the difference?Domain7
What's the difference between usability and user experience? Is there one? Check out Domain7's quick, handy guide—for designers, developers, and clients alike! Learn more: http://www.domain7.com/blog
Day 2 slides from a two-day workshop on UX Foundations by Meg Kurdziolek and Karen Tang. Day 2 covered research methods that can be used throughout the design process to evaluate and validate design.
Putting Yourself Where Your Users Are - How To Recruit for UX Research & Usab...UserZoom
Let’s face it - recruiting for your UX research and usability testing can sometimes feel like an onerous task. It can seem like the users you want to recruit have suddenly vanished from the planet, that there are never enough of them or that you simply don’t have the time to find them.
The good news is that your target users do exist and they are out there - you might just not be looking in all the right places. In this sense you can think of recruiting as like speed dating – you have to put yourself in the same space they are, and be able to quickly assess if they’re a good match. Leah Kaufman of Lenovo is here to share her tips on how to find the people you want to recruit by being in the same places they are.
Informed & Agile: Test Driven Design w/ Jon InnesUserZoom
Do you find yourself sprinting without a clear direction? Pushing feature after feature out, only to wonder if your app or website is really getting better? Join Jon Innes of UX Innovation in a webinar on-demand, where he will discuss how to improve your sprints by incorporating UX/usability metrics that the whole team can use to measure progress on your agile journey as a product team.
What does it mean to be a test engineer?Andrii Dzynia
Test engineering is hard, even harder than software development. Being test engineer puts you in a wider context, with no clear boundaries. You have to find those by yourself. This requires courage. Courage to take action, courage to make mistakes. As a test engineer, you do mistakes every day. You do them so often that sometimes you feel you can predict the future. Scientific explanation to this phenomena is patterns recognition. It is an ability of our brain to match the information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. Defect prevention is hard. Together with technical skills one have to develop high social awareness. Working on safety nets never was so important, different types of checks on different levels to make sure software is reliable and serves its purpose to the variety of everyday use-cases. We know that life is so complex and sometimes complicated which makes it impossible to predict all possible outcomes and scenarios. But striving for excellence never was so important as nowadays in such an open, transparent and competitive environment.
Goal of my talk will be to show you my everyday job as a test engineer. Not only how to look for defects, but how to prevent them from happening. Not only how to automate tests(noun), but how to build safety nets to minimize end-user impact. Not only how to inform testing status but how to influence quality on company level.
The 10 Golden Usability Heuristics (Montreal Girl Geeks September 2014)Elida Arrizza
A great User Experience (UX) is key to user delight and a positive attitude toward a brand. We’ve all had that moment when we’ve experienced frustration at doing or getting something online, but may have trouble understanding or communicating why.
A core element of UX is Usability, which focuses on whether or not a given task can be accomplished on a website, helping to rid us of any of those frustrations. This presentation will provide you with a basic understanding of the language and purpose of usability, as well as an overview of tools and techniques to improve your site’s usability by examining the 10 golden heuristics. This talk is ideal for designers, UX professionals, developers and anyone who wants to know more about how users think and what we can do to make things easier for our audience.
http://montrealgirlgeeks.com/2014/09/23/september-10-golden-usability-heuristics-with-elida-arrizza/
It is important to learn to be flexible in your work and to learn tools that will empower usability analysts to be more effective in their roles. Also, in an age of diminishing corporate spending and rapid prototyping and testing, remote usability can save companies a lot of time and money.
Slides from my "Usability Testing How To's" workshop with Event Handler.
http://www.eventhandler.co.uk/events/uxnightclass-usability
Westminster Hub, London UK 24 October 2013
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Who is it for?
This workshop is for those who want to create products that will be easy to use. Usability testing is an important part of the process of designing digital products, but it can often be overlooked due to time, money, and training constraints. In this workshop you'll learn how to test any product's usability without spending a large amount of time and money. And how to use what you've learned to improve the product.
Who is it taught by?
This workshop is being taught by Evgenia Grinblo @grinblo, User Experience Specialist at mobile agency, Future Workshops. Born in Siberia, Jenny freelanced and trained in ethnographic research in Israel and the USA, before bringing her talent to the UK. Her pet peeve is badly written error-messages and she has a growing collection of them. You'll find her speaking on empathy, UX, and other passions.
What you'll learn
An introduction to usability testing - what is it?
Who should you test your product on?
What do you test?
How to facilitate a test and get reliable results
How to manage data and act on your findings with your team
Tools: Cheap, quick and effective testing tools for mobile and the web.
How To Run Your Own Guerrilla Usability Testingjtcchan
A workshop we conducted at the University of British Columbia. A brief how-to guide on how to plan, recruit, set up, facilitate and analyze a usability testing campaign.
A Quick guide into a Lean UX process and how to engage with Users.
How to do products people love?
What are the steps you need to give to be a great Uxer?
Can User Experience be Lean?
What Methods and Processes can be used?
User Testing in a nutshell.
Reduce Product Failures While Boosting Conversion RatesUserZoom
What would a 5% improvement in your website’s conversion rates make to your bottom line? If you’re not doing regular usability testing, then you’re probably leaving at least that value on the table. Join Peter Hughes in this free webinar sponsored by UserZoom and UXPA to find out how you can reduce product failures while boosting conversion rates.
Uncovering Need and Validating Ideas with UserTesting by Marieke McCloskeyUserTesting
To build a successful product, a good idea and a skilled team are not enough. You also need to validate your product ideas with your target market. In this webinar, Marieke McCloskey, Director of Research at UserTesting, shares advice on how to build products that people love by spending time in the product discovery phase understanding who your users are, what they need, and how they might use and react to your product. Marieke shares fast and practical ways to understand your customers and validate design concepts through remote research. She also covers the impact of getting early feedback on product ideas and then continuously testing your prototypes.
Usability vs. User Experience: What's the difference?Domain7
What's the difference between usability and user experience? Is there one? Check out Domain7's quick, handy guide—for designers, developers, and clients alike! Learn more: http://www.domain7.com/blog
Day 2 slides from a two-day workshop on UX Foundations by Meg Kurdziolek and Karen Tang. Day 2 covered research methods that can be used throughout the design process to evaluate and validate design.
Putting Yourself Where Your Users Are - How To Recruit for UX Research & Usab...UserZoom
Let’s face it - recruiting for your UX research and usability testing can sometimes feel like an onerous task. It can seem like the users you want to recruit have suddenly vanished from the planet, that there are never enough of them or that you simply don’t have the time to find them.
The good news is that your target users do exist and they are out there - you might just not be looking in all the right places. In this sense you can think of recruiting as like speed dating – you have to put yourself in the same space they are, and be able to quickly assess if they’re a good match. Leah Kaufman of Lenovo is here to share her tips on how to find the people you want to recruit by being in the same places they are.
Informed & Agile: Test Driven Design w/ Jon InnesUserZoom
Do you find yourself sprinting without a clear direction? Pushing feature after feature out, only to wonder if your app or website is really getting better? Join Jon Innes of UX Innovation in a webinar on-demand, where he will discuss how to improve your sprints by incorporating UX/usability metrics that the whole team can use to measure progress on your agile journey as a product team.
What does it mean to be a test engineer?Andrii Dzynia
Test engineering is hard, even harder than software development. Being test engineer puts you in a wider context, with no clear boundaries. You have to find those by yourself. This requires courage. Courage to take action, courage to make mistakes. As a test engineer, you do mistakes every day. You do them so often that sometimes you feel you can predict the future. Scientific explanation to this phenomena is patterns recognition. It is an ability of our brain to match the information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. Defect prevention is hard. Together with technical skills one have to develop high social awareness. Working on safety nets never was so important, different types of checks on different levels to make sure software is reliable and serves its purpose to the variety of everyday use-cases. We know that life is so complex and sometimes complicated which makes it impossible to predict all possible outcomes and scenarios. But striving for excellence never was so important as nowadays in such an open, transparent and competitive environment.
Goal of my talk will be to show you my everyday job as a test engineer. Not only how to look for defects, but how to prevent them from happening. Not only how to automate tests(noun), but how to build safety nets to minimize end-user impact. Not only how to inform testing status but how to influence quality on company level.
The 10 Golden Usability Heuristics (Montreal Girl Geeks September 2014)Elida Arrizza
A great User Experience (UX) is key to user delight and a positive attitude toward a brand. We’ve all had that moment when we’ve experienced frustration at doing or getting something online, but may have trouble understanding or communicating why.
A core element of UX is Usability, which focuses on whether or not a given task can be accomplished on a website, helping to rid us of any of those frustrations. This presentation will provide you with a basic understanding of the language and purpose of usability, as well as an overview of tools and techniques to improve your site’s usability by examining the 10 golden heuristics. This talk is ideal for designers, UX professionals, developers and anyone who wants to know more about how users think and what we can do to make things easier for our audience.
http://montrealgirlgeeks.com/2014/09/23/september-10-golden-usability-heuristics-with-elida-arrizza/
It is important to learn to be flexible in your work and to learn tools that will empower usability analysts to be more effective in their roles. Also, in an age of diminishing corporate spending and rapid prototyping and testing, remote usability can save companies a lot of time and money.
Slides from my "Usability Testing How To's" workshop with Event Handler.
http://www.eventhandler.co.uk/events/uxnightclass-usability
Westminster Hub, London UK 24 October 2013
===
Who is it for?
This workshop is for those who want to create products that will be easy to use. Usability testing is an important part of the process of designing digital products, but it can often be overlooked due to time, money, and training constraints. In this workshop you'll learn how to test any product's usability without spending a large amount of time and money. And how to use what you've learned to improve the product.
Who is it taught by?
This workshop is being taught by Evgenia Grinblo @grinblo, User Experience Specialist at mobile agency, Future Workshops. Born in Siberia, Jenny freelanced and trained in ethnographic research in Israel and the USA, before bringing her talent to the UK. Her pet peeve is badly written error-messages and she has a growing collection of them. You'll find her speaking on empathy, UX, and other passions.
What you'll learn
An introduction to usability testing - what is it?
Who should you test your product on?
What do you test?
How to facilitate a test and get reliable results
How to manage data and act on your findings with your team
Tools: Cheap, quick and effective testing tools for mobile and the web.
How To Run Your Own Guerrilla Usability Testingjtcchan
A workshop we conducted at the University of British Columbia. A brief how-to guide on how to plan, recruit, set up, facilitate and analyze a usability testing campaign.
A Quick guide into a Lean UX process and how to engage with Users.
How to do products people love?
What are the steps you need to give to be a great Uxer?
Can User Experience be Lean?
What Methods and Processes can be used?
User Testing in a nutshell.
Content-first UX Design: What video games teach us about UXSteph Hay
Great UX design influences one video game becoming a cultural icon while another lands in the $5 bin at GameStop. So what cues can we take from these popular games—and from this technology-driven industry that so closely parallels our own?
Steph is going to teach us about two: Content-first UX Design and Contextual Learning.
See popular video games whose character stories form the backbone of design, and whose flow teaches players to use the game while they’re playing it.
Then hear how Steph translated these two concepts to her work with Ben & Jerry’s, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and FastCustomer.com—which resulted in fewer design iterations, more cohesive content, and higher levels of user engagement.
The Future of UX: Designing Data ExperiencesEva Willis
A funny thing happens when you open up your design process to consider the increasing number of devices people use: the importance of each individual device diminishes. That’s a significant shift for the user experiences community to adjust to. The future of UX is the user who begins a task on one device, continues through many more interfaces across many platforms and many more devices and completes their task with little recognition of, or interest in the complexity involved. To stay relevant in the development of digital products, we need think at a higher level than screens or sites or devices. The future of UX is designing data experiences.
A Workshop on how ot teach UX design, based on a one day workshop model. We cover exercise design, how people learn, and how to design the day. Originally Given at General Assemb.ly 12/15/13
Please feel free to reuse with credit.
This presentation dedicated to whom who are UX designers / students or entrepreneurs. I tried to give minor detail about UX (User Experience) myths and mistakes with humor. Credit links provided in last slide.
Faster Usability Testing in an Agile World presented at Agile2011Carol Smith
The sheer speed of an Agile project can be frightening to even the most experienced UX practitioner. This talk covers testing in short, quick, repetitive sessions, without sacrificing quality. The presentation covers strategies and techniques that can be used for speeding up traditional usability testing, on-site, remote and Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation (RITE) methods. Topics from planning through analysis, and ways to provide useful and usable recommendations to the team will be covered.
Getting the most from guerrilla usability testingNexer Digital
Have you ever wanted to test your website or web app with users, but haven’t been sure which tools and techniques to use to ensure you get the most out of it?
I'll walk you through the core concepts of guerrilla usability testing in agile environments and how you can ensure that your team is getting the insights you need to keep your project user centered throughout the development process.
Topics include:
- An introduction to guerrilla usability testing
- Why it matters and some common findings
- Planning a usability testing session
- Making your users comfortable and setting up a room for testing
- Simple approaches to testing on laptops and devices
- Some tips and tricks for capturing your notes that can save you hours of analysis time
Designing for Customer needs: A UX PerspectiveRichard O'Brien
A brief 20 min talk I gave to the Head Start meetup (@HeadStartAus), introducing some Lean techniques to help them consider the customer throughout the product & biz development process.
User Experience Basics for Product ManagementRoger Hart
User Experience (UX) has matured as a discipline and radically changed how products are delivered. It touches workflows, usability, customer needs, and of course visual design and UI. Product managers can't ignore it, even if they want to... and if they want to, they're probably wrong. The tools of User Experience can help us get closer to our customers and differentiate our products.
In this presentation Joseph Dickerson, UX Architect for Fortune 500 Company Fiserv, discusses best practices in UX design for mobile with some practical examples and approaches. Topics covered:
- How to do mobile ethnographic research, to understand mobile personas and usage patterns
- Designing for the "immediacy of now", "ego-centric design" and for context of use
- Designing for device constraints
- Mobile usability testing and documentation
You've gotten to the point where you realize you need to take steps to improve the user experience on your website, but, if UX isn't your "main gig," you might be thinking, "now what?" How do you get started? Do you know all the tools that are available to you? How do you identify the ones that will return the most bang for your precious budget buck? In this presentation, we first look at the compelling case for investment in UX, and then review a selection of commonly used UX design tools and approaches. Because not every tool is created equal, you'll also get tips on when to introduce them into your process and what benefits you might expect.
3 Steps to Create a Habit of User Research on Your Product Teamvalidately
Webinar slides for Sarah Doody's MasterClass on creating a habit of research on your product team.
Video presentation at:
https://youtu.be/EKjWOvLb8G8
In this free masterclass you'll learn:
- The 3 types of research you should be doing each quarter to gather critical insights to form your product decisions.
- How to build what people want and avoid the expensive "re-work" that often happens after you launch.
- How to tailor your research to your company's timelines and budgets.
- How to empower other members of your team to do more research.
- Free Trello Board: Copy Sarah's "Quarterly Research Toolkit" Trello Board to plan your team's research.
Sarah Doody is a user experience designer, consultant, and writer. She is based in New York, NY and works with clients worldwide.
Prototyping is a great way of developing, communicating and validating design ideas and requirements in a quick and cost-effective manner, when devising a user experience.
This presentation discusses what prototypes are, why they are useful, the various tools that can be used and some basic principles to adopt.
This presentation was delivered by Stephen Denning as part of the User Vision Breakfast Briefing series in 2012.
The Agile UX Equation: How to Implement UserZoom Within Your Agile FrameworkUserZoom
Join Sarah as she walks you through specific examples of how you can leverage UserZoom for UX insights even in the fast-paced world of agile development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
4. Me
Usability specialist
10 years in usability research
6 years in consultancy
Used to write a blog (goodusability.co.uk)
Took a „proper job‟ this year
BBC, British Museum, Schuh, Covestor, Share Centre,
lots of big banks (please don‟t hate me) etc. etc.
5. Skyscanner
Europe‟s most popular flight comparison website
60m+ sessions per month (site and apps)
25m+ app downloads
70 currencies and over 30 languages
Also cover hotels and car hire
Over 250 employees and growing very very fast
…and we‟re hiring UX people
www.skyscanner.net/jobs
6. What I do at Skyscanner
1. Usability testing
Design iterations
Live website and apps
International testing (not me yet)
2. Research
Travel planning needs and behaviour
Bury my head in analytics
3. Annoy everyone with my opinions
8. About Skyscanner
Little and often
Use meeting rooms (sometimes coffee shops) not labs
Around 6 participants per study (always target users)
Mostly use interview-based tasks
Promote observation over reports
16. Usability testing - top tips
Test the clarity of
information
Bad
“Is this information clear?”
Good
“Tell me about this flight so I know the information is clear”
34. Usability testing - top tips
Write pretend notes
Make a „Stuff to ignore‟ section but don‟t write
that on it
35. Usability testing - top tips
Make tasks very specific
Even when you don‟t need them to be
“Choose a destination, it doesn‟t matter where”
This is bad
