Establishing Usability Testing Capabilities

Research
Documentation
Guideline

About the Product

YOOV WORK is a All-in-one HR management system that integrates various functions. It helps business to streamline all HR tasks, from employee onboarding, scheduling, attendance, leave, to payroll.

Overview

The company prioritizes a business strategy of rapid design deployment to secure market share, which results in limited resources allocated to UX optimization.

Problem

The absence of usability testing capability limits our ability to iterate effectively, preventing us from maximizing the value and impact of delivering competitive features.

Goals

Develop a usability testing framework within the organization.
1. Enable us to gather usability insights through conducting usability tests and analyzing data across our product portfolio.
2. Enable designers without relevant experience to conduct testing.

Team and Role

Harry Wong | Product Designer

- Collaboratively research and establish a Usability Testing framework
- Collaboratively conducting Usability testing
- Documenting result

Lucy Ng | Product Designer
- Collaboratively research and establish a Usability Testing playbook
- Collaboratively conducting Usability testing
- Analyzing results

Marcus Kung | Product Design Manager
- Assign task
- Signing off the design directions and  final deliverable

Project duration

8 days

Identifying Ideal Approaches

prioritizing adaptiveness and outcome

By evaluating various approaches, we decided to adopt moderated and in-person approach as our foundation.

While this combination has a slightly steeper learning curve compared to unmoderated and remote testing, its higher flexibility allows for higher feasibility across the entire product ecosystem. In the result perspective, this approach not only helps us obtain quantitative data but also deeper qualitative insights.

Ensuring Feasibility

Hosting session with minimal studies

Moderators' behaviors can significantly affect the quality of testing results in a moderated testing environment. To enable users without testing experience to effectively carry out the session, we have incorporated the most critical qualities into our the guidelines.

Ensuring Scalability

An scalable workflow

Through the visualized testing flow, users can gain a comprehensive understanding of the entire testing operation at glance.

Additionally, this flow could serve as the foundation, the modifiability enables each testing project to be more agile. Users can develop new flow by adjusting the process according to different features, requirements, contexts, scopes, and more.

Navigating The Whole Process

playbook Documentation

Using different tools for various stages of the testing process can create challenges to practicing, managing and organizing deliverables. It's crucial to reduce the risk of losing important information scattered across different tools.

We selected Google Document as the centralized hub. It serves as a playbook, navigation center, template and storage of records for each testing project.

Result

Empowered Design Team
Designers without prior experience can now conduct usability testing, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
Boosted Iteration&Optimization
Enabled more effective and efficient UX iterations to quickly address usability issues.
Resource Efficiency
Integrated usability testing into the design process without significant additional investment in the future.
Informed Decision-Making
Data-driven insights from usability tests enable more strategic and impactful product development decisions.