Usability Testing

"Usability refers to the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use."
ISO 9241-11



SOE's in-house Usability Lab provides a disciplined approach to product development that incorporates user centric feedback on design throughout the development cycle. Our strategy is iterative; focused on single user interaction sessions to validate flows for ease of use, intuitive design, barriers to entry and accessibility.

Usability Testing
You make the games. Let SOE Usability help you get your target audience into the game. Based on your requirements we'll facilitate profiling and screening of candidates that fit your target demographic. We test for market acceptance by evaluating components such as:

Tutorials
HUD
GUI
Navigation
Controls
Flow (such as installation, account and registration)


Upon completion of the testing, we can provide you with comprehensive reports, time to task data, highlight videos, questionnaire data, raw commentary, and more.

Heuristic Testing
Let our industry professionals evaluate your title based on some of the choice components listed above. Heuristic testing can get you the data that you want, and get it to you faster.


Product Evaluation
A comprehensive review that will focus on numerous aspects of your game including; fun factor, replayability, and feature impressions based upon a hybrid model of Usability and Focus testing.


Competitive Analysis
Do you stand up to your competition? SOE Development Services can compare your product with up to 5 of your competitor's products and answer that question. We'll build the test cases based upon the components that you want tested against. We can provide detailed analytical data encompassing:

Likert Scale numerical ratings
User comparative analysis opinion data
Raw commentary
Moderator feedback
User Interest and Disengagement metrics
And More!!!


Sample Reports
Click on an image below to view a Sample Report.




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