This document provides guidance on user experience testing for a website. It discusses launching a site only when it is release-worthy and respects users. Key aspects to test include whether the site works as expected across different devices and content types. The document also stresses the importance of understanding target users and providing flexibility. It includes a master checklist of technical and user experience elements to review such as comment features, sharing tools, analytics, and error handling.

1. USER EXPERIENCE FLIGHT CHECK
WordCamp Chicago

2. Launch Prep
UX COUNTDOWN

3. Grant Hutchinson (splorp@flickr)
Site As Software

4. ✓ Release worthy
✓ Respect users - even if it’s just you & your cat
✓ Fixes take time & money
✓ Build with upgrades, new features in mind
✓ Cut the right corners - aka ad hoc QA

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Works As Expected

6. ✓ Blog, Website, Both, Who Cares?
✓ Snozberries taste like Snozberries
✓ Be Yourself, Be Creative, Be Careful
✓ Experience Extends to Content Creators
✓ URLs Are Your Currency
✓ Tame Dynamic Plugins

7. Grant Hutchinson (splorp@flickr)
Know Your Users

8. ✓ Tailor content and experience to your users
✓ Your users may include machines
✓ Respect, Flexibility & Control
✓ Mobility - Is your content & culture mobile?
✓ Analytics are your friend

9. MASTER CHECKLIST

10. MASTER CHECKLIST
Blog Single Page
✓ Sharing tools ✓ Comment Gravatars
✓ Permalink Structure ✓ Links to Comment Author
✓ Permalinked Elements ✓ Author Comment Coloring
✓ Pagination / Next & Prev ✓ Pagination
✓ Number of posts ✓ Threading
✓ Featured Posts ✓ Discussion Beyond Blog
✓ Alt text

11. MASTER CHECKLIST
Connections Analytics
✓ URL services ✓ Google Analytics
✓ Subscribe via email ✓ Chartbeat
✓ Facebook like ✓ Click Tracking
✓ SEO Tools ✓ 3rd Party Stats
✓ Twitter ✓ Flash video, JWPLayer, etc
✓ Trackbacks

12. MASTER CHECKLIST
Fallbacks Worst Case Scenario
✓ Search box ✓ Image sizes breaking layout
✓ Search results ✓ Garbage code in posts
✓ Smart 404 ✓ Empty sections
Random ✓ Overloaded sections
✓ Author links
✓ Performance
✓ Favicon

13. MASTER CHECKLIST
Feeds & Things
✓ Full Posts
✓ Permalinks
✓ Hitting the Yahoo! Pipe(s)
✓ Feedburner

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15. THANKS!
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