24 Usability Testing Tools

This is a great posting about  24 online usability test tools and shows 24 usability testing websites with detailed explanations.

Why usability testing helps:
But what good is conducting usability testing, how can it help?
As an example of the benefit of usability testing, Jared Spool, usability guru and leader of User Interface Engineering, has described how simple usability testing and subsequent changes to ONE button increased online revenues for a major eCommerce web site by about 300 Million Dollars, in one year.  This is known as the $300 Million button.
By using today’s low cost usability testing tools, usability researchers can spend a fraction of the cost to obtain results that are close to the traditional usability testing facility results that used to cost thousands.  And just as significant, results can now be gathered and analyzed in a matter of an hour, vs. the days it used to take……….

List of 24 usability testing tools:

1. A Paper and Pencil
2. Concept Feedback
3. Chalkmark
4. Clickheat
5. ClickTale
6. Clixpy
7. Crazy Egg
8. Ethnio
9. Feng-GUI
10. Five Second Test
11. Feedback Army
12. Loop11
13. Mechanical Turk
14. Morae
15. Open Hallway
16. Silverback
17. Simple Mouse Tracking
18. Usabilla
19. UserFly
20. UserTesting.com
21. UserVue
22. Google Analytics
23. Google Website Optimizer
24. Website Grader

24 Usability Testing Tools | Useful Usability

(Via Craig Tomlin)