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Sometimes who you get to participate in your card sorting study is as important as how many participants you have.  Not surprisingly, then, a fair number of our clients use professional recruiting services to get information from a particular demographic.  But tracking and correlating the data across several different platforms can be a challenge.  So we decided [...]

Earlier this year, Luke W wrote about the increased conversion rate of a “Mad Libs” Style Form as compared to a standard web form. I loved the technique, but none of our applications require more than and email address and password to get signed up. We don’t do “lead gen.” But in our card-sorting application [...]

On the plane ride down to SXSW earlier this year, I was listening to a 2009 episode of the UIE podcast with Hagan Rivers answering some questions about web app navigation. A more recent version of her presentation, “Escaping Navigation Hell,” was recently posted and it reminded of an interesting technique: design your navigation last. [...]

Like all good web applications (including its 8 year old card sorting brother WebSort), we’ll keep making PlainFrame better- adding features and fixing any bugs. But as of today, the training wheels are off! For the month of July, PlainFrame is free to use. Each account can have up to 3 projects, and each project [...]

PlainFrame will be out of “private” alpha/beta soon. We’re making hard decisions to cut or at least postpone potentially cool features. It won’t be a solution for every possible navigation that people need to test. And I’m okay with that. But I also don’t want PlainFrame to target the simple menus of small web sites. [...]

Update 6/26: Added “Direct File Saving…” section A PlainFrame tester asked a question today that seems like a good FAQ (and in fact is a fairly frequent question over at WebSort). So I thought I’d answer it here. Are there any practical limitations on the number of users who can log in doing the same [...]

I thought we’d kick off the longest day of the year (and the official start of summer) with a few nice updates. Create and Manage Multiple Projects Nothing much to explain here. Redirect or Customized Message In the test plan setup, you can now customize the little “all done” message, or have the user automatically [...]