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The reason I called it "Edit my Free Checklist" is that we already prepared a checklist for you. But you are right, it is confusing, I will change that! Thanks for the feedback!

The checklist link shows our original usability checklist, but if you sign up, you can edit it as you wish.

Gradual sign-up would be great, good idea, thanks!

True, UX / usability reports are boring to read - and to write. This is something simple and fast you can do for any project.

Also gives the customer / team / boss a quick overview of UX issues in the project.

Creator here. I built this with Rails. We made it simple and fast to make a custom UX checklist for your project. We'd love feedback! - Nina from Userium

UX reports are often boring to read - and to write. We decided to solve the problem by making a simple, fast way to make a UX checklist for your project.

We prepared a UX checklist, which you can customise for your own needs and then invite your team and client to check it out.

We'd love your feedback!

Thanks, Nina

Yep, it's a GIF of the app..

Thanks! :) The seal is our mascot, it's a Saimaa ringed seal from Finland. Btw, it's the most endangered seal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saimaa_ringed_seal) in the world, there are only 310 of them left. It was separated from the other seals when the land rose after the last ice age.

UX reports are often boring to read - and to write. We decided to solve the problem by making a simple, fast way to make a UX checklist for your project.

We prepared a UX checklist, which you can customise for your own needs and then invite your team and client to check it out.

We'd love your feedback!

Thanks, Nina

In Finland, at least in Helsinki, they have a "home hospital" system (http://www.hel.fi/www/Helsinki/en/socia-health/health/hospit...) for "patients who do not need the services of emergency units or specialist care". In case the patient is "healthy" enough to go home and has somebody to look after him there, they arrange for a nurse to visit e.g. even four times per day, to give meds, provide IV, and even take blood tests. Also sometimes a doctor visits the patient, though not as often as the nurses. Staying at the hospital is very expensive (for the country), so I have heard that the outpatient care ends up being cheaper.

This seems great, bit different than traditional audio tours. Especially for those who want to quickly explore the city, but don't know any locals, who could guide them.

In Paris, we went for a traditional guided tour ("Paris with Chris / City Free Tour"), which was great, but you have to adjust to their schedule and walking pace.

I don't see myself using this app together with my friends (as in part of the video), because we couldn't discuss the sights at the same time. But when I'm travelling alone, this seems like a fun option.

I also came across Gawande's Checklist Manifesto when creating a usability checklist for websites: https://userium.com/ As Freakonomics said: "The book’s main point is simple: no matter how expert you may be, well-designed check lists can improve outcomes".

As many here told, the process of applying is valuable in itself.

Our application was rejected, but you can sign up for a beta invite here: https://userium.com/ Soon 400 sign ups and counting. :)

We are building a preventive workplace safety and health application. Sign up for a beta invite to get early access.

I would also add usability to the already mentioned tactics. Usability testing helps you to understand what people really want, thus making you a better marketer.

In addition to testing your own site, you can also do a usability test for your competitor's site. You might find some interesting marketing ideas that way. :)

Here is a free usability checklist for websites: https://userium.com/ And services like e.g. usertesting.com are great for getting feedback from users.

Nothing beats usability testing with target users and there are great tools online to make that easier. However, we believe you should first do an "expert usability review", to catch all the common usability problems on your website. Once you fix those, you will receive much more meaningful feedback from often expensive and time-consuming user testing.

Just noticed this post. Perhaps this was the worst day for us to ask for feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7989526) for our new service, since there are so many ShowHN posts today? :)

Fully agree with the following.

>"Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more."

Helsinki, Finland; Local | Remote; Contract | Part Time | Full Time (starting from September 2014)

Stack: Junior Rails developer (sample project: http://growth.userium.com/), HTML / CSS (sample project: http://userium.com/), jQuery, Git, Usability, UX, Service design methods

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninapatkai

Contact: nina@userium.com

MSc in Engineering, used to do e.g. Computer Aided Design and Product Data Management, now learning more web dev, particularly Rails. Interested also in web usability, product management and customer experience design.

To improve conversion, you could make sign up easier and faster. Perhaps only have fields for email and password?

I agree with the importance of doing usability testing. I made this usability checklist (http://userium.com/), which can be used to catch common usability problems before user testing. By fixing obvious usability problems you get more meaningful feedback from users.

I made this with Telescope and Meteor: http://usability.userium.com/

It's a bit slow, might be because I can only use one dyno on Heroku with Meteor, because it needs session affinity.

Yep. :) I was trying to use similar colors as on my frontpage: http://userium.com/ but went a bit overboard. I will later fix the contrast.

Thanks for the feedback! I can only use one dyno on Heroku with Meteor, because it needs session affinity. Maybe that's also why it is slow?

Many thanks for submitting, it did get saved. There seems to be a problem with the submission confirmation, I'm looking into fixing that.

You are right, I will improve the contrast. Thanks for the feedback!

Hi!

I created a site where you can get feedback for your website and learn about usability by helping others: http://usability.userium.com/

First I learned Meteor from the "Discover Meteor" book and built the 'Microscope' app, but then decided to do this project with the 'Telescope' open source project, due to its additional features.

The idea is that first you can

(1) use the usability checklist: http://usability.userium.com/c/usability-checklist to catch common usability problems on your website.

(2) After fixing obvious problems, you can ask for feedback on the site.

To increase the amount of replies, only 3 website feedback requests are posted on the site per day. All the feedback is public, so that others can learn and apply the tips on their own websites.

This is a work-in-process, so please let me know if you find this site useful? How could I improve?

Many thanks in advance!

-Nina, nina@userium.com, http://usability.userium.com

Some useful apps in this article. For example had never heard about http://www.similarweb.com/ before, useful for getting full analytics insights of any website.

Thanks, I will fix that!

Very good suggestions, thanks for the feedback! I will continue to improve the site.