Testing & Data analysis

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Purpose-driven organizations owe it to beneficiaries and funders to test that initiatives have the desired impact before full investment. A 2 day test can prevent a year of working on the wrong thing!

I will design the leanest possible test for you to determine if the initiative is on the right path, or whether it needs to be adjusted.

I will also deep dive existing data to understand behavioral trends and drive decisions.

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Example

Client W had what looked like a pretty simple challenge at first glance - redesign an online guide to finding affordable internet access for low-income people. 

The client had many concerns about ensuring the guide worked - would people understand the results? Would they trust the site? Would they find the help they needed? - and there were many possible solutions, as well as a lot of passion about which solution was right. 

To answer the questions, I designed an extremely simple observational usability test that took 3 hours to conduct, using a digital prototype. We also defined - as a team - clear metrics of success up front, including: 

• 90% of customers accurately describe the discounts available to them

• 90% of customers can self-resolve with the help resources provided

Simply observing real people use the website showed that the first was true - but for the second, while the help provided was very useful, most customers could not FIND the help resources initially! 

A small design tweak solved the problem before coding even started, and headed off what would have been disastrous in production.