Analyze Current Site

Evaluate Your Current Site

Before you design and write your website, you should find out how well your current site is working, set measurable usability goals, and learn as much as you can about your users and their tasks. Learn More

Learn About Your Users

To design a site that works for you and your intended audiences, you have to know a lot about those audiences. They may be customers, consumers, researchers, or the public. Learn More

Task Analysis

Learn about your users' goals and their ways of working through task analysis. Task analysis can also show you the specific tasks users must do to meet their goals and what steps they must take to accomplish those tasks. Learn More

Personas

A persona is a fictional person who represents a major user group for your site. A persona typically includes a fictional name and characteristics that are consistent with one of the main user groups you have identified. Learn More

Scenarios

A scenario is a short story about a specific user with a specific goal at your site. Scenarios are the questions, tasks, and stories that users bring to your website and that your website must satisfy. Learn More

Measurable Usability Goals

Measurable usability goals define successful usability on your site for a specific set of users doing a specific task. Learn More