Usabilla Blog

From 12 to 14 May 2010 the European UX scene gathers at UX-Lx in beautiful Lisbon for three days of interesting keynotes and workshops. Usabilla is one of the proud sponsors of this conference.
We’ve set up a great deal with UX-Lx: buy a Gold or Platinum UX-Lx ticket and save 751 dollar on a Large Usabilla account!

How does it work?

1. Buy your Gold or Platinum conference ticket directly on the website of UX-Lx (if you already haven’t bought one).
2. Sign up for a Standard account or upgrade your existing Free or Small account to a Standard account.
3. Send us a mail with your registration details for UX-Lx and account name and we’ll upgrade your account.
4. We’ll upgrade your Standard plan to a Large plan for free.

We’ll be attending UX Lx 2010 in sunny Lisbon from 12 to 14 May. If you’re fast you can order early bird tickets and meet the international UX scene in beautiful Portugal. Great speakers (Steve Krug, Jared Spool, Peter Merholz, Luke Wroblewski, and many others), interesting workshops for everyone (beginners, intermediates, & advanced).

UX Lx is a unique three-day User Experience event set in sunny Lisbon, Portugal on May 12-14 2010. A premier event for User Experience Professionals, Designers, Information Architects and Usability Practitioners, UX Lx will bring together more than 300 professionals. Coupled with a set of world renowned speakers, all of them published authors and leading experts in their fields, UX Lx will be one of the largest events of its kind in Europe.

With 12 though-provoking talks, 16 hands-on workshops and 16 open sessions, UX Lx will pre- sent the latest knowledge in the field, giving attendees the information and techniques they will need to push their work forward. Workshops will be split in three levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced, enabling newcomers and seasoned professionals alike to hone up their skills and techniques. Talks will present all the latest topics in a thought-provoking fashion and are set to be starting points for discussion and further investigation. Open sessions will allow free submis- sions and will be curated by the organising committee, enabling up and coming professionals to show their knowledge and gain recognition. A range of networking events and side activities is also being laid out so that everyone can have a great time at UX Lx.

Meet us in Lisbon and order your tickets here: ux-lx.com

We’ve just released some minor enhancements for the test details page, to solve some important usability issues. These small improvements include extra feedback on the status of your test, disabled buttons instead of disappeared buttons, and some improved styling.

Fixed issue: ‘Disappearing’ actions were very confusing

We do no longer hide the ‘Activate’, ‘Preview’, and ‘Analyze’ buttons when these functions are not (yet) available. You can’t start a test that doesn’t contain at least one page and one task. We’ve used disabled styles, a tooltip, and a additional message to explain why the ‘Activate’ and ‘Preview’ buttons are disabled. Showing the most important actions, regardless the state of a test, should also help to create a more complete picture of the entire testing process from the start.

Fixed issue: Ordering tasks was a ‘hidden feature’

In one of our recent releases we’ve added drag-and-drop functionality to change the order of tasks. You can simply drag and drop tasks to order them any way you like. Many users did not notice this feature. We hope we’ve solved this issue by simply adding a small icon.

Aesthetics: finetuning

We’ve made an enormous amount of small visual changes. We hope all these small changes together improve the look and feel of our application. We’re also working on user experience improvements for the front-end. We hope to be able to launch these changes in a few weeks. Stay tuned.

Login to your account (or create one) and please tell us what you think.

We have been working on some usability improvements in our frontend. These changes have been released last week and should enhance the user experience for your participants. Users get a clear introduction before they start the test. The toolbar has been simplified, the dimming on the mockups has been removed and users no longer need to register before they can rate a page. These improvements should push up the conversion rates for your tests.

Last week we launched Usabilla in private beta and we’re very happy with all the attention and useful feedback we received the past days. At this moment we can only invite a limited number of users to our beta. But we promise to send out invites to all subscribers as soon as possible.
We’re working hard on some big improvements and new features and we will release a big update in about 4 weeks.
We could really use the feedback of our beta testers to improve our service. Please send your feedback to support@usabilla.com or post a message at http://getsatisfaction.com/usabilla.

Not signed up yet? Sign up for our private beta.