Steps for Achieving Usability
- Step 1: Firstly, Get clear understanding of users’ goals with User Research (UX). For this we will need to learn who the person is? What is the context of use of the product or service?
- Step 2: Second step to achieve usability is to build User Personas. For that we need to learn who our target user is? What are their needs and goals? And what are their pain-points and challenges?
- Step 3: In the third step we can ideate Solutions to solve the user Problems. This can be done by conducting Ideation sessions to gather different perspectives of different people in the team to uncover the most unexpected and innovative solution to the problem.
- Step 4: Next step is building Prototypes. Building a Prototype helps you to ask questions and take User feedback to bring improvements thus improving the user experience.
- Step 5: Next step is conducting thorough usability testing. We already have discussed how to conduct usability testing.
- Step 6: And the final step is to Iterate. After performing usability testing you will get to know the issues with your design and some more feedback, implement it in your design and continue doing so until a usable design is achieved.
What Is Usability?
Usability is one of the most important factors that affects the user experience of any application, website, or any other piece of software. Usability principles like Visibility, User control, etc. are make or break for many applications. Usability or user-centered design is the process of designing something from the perspective of how it will eventually be used by an actual person. In simple words, usability is the ease with which a user can use a product, or software to perform the core tasks for which the product or software has been created. In this article we will look at what usability and its principles are, what is Usability testing and how can we improve the usability of our application.