Digital.gov Guide

Testing and assessment

This guide provides information on ways to validate your design and content to ensure they meet user needs.
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Overview

The research methods included in this guide will help you test your designs throughout your development cycle. Methods include:

Content

Learn how to get feedback on what is clear (or confusing) in your content.

  • Content highlighter testing

Data analysis

See how tagging qualitative feedback on your designs can provide you with insights and design direction.

  • Qualitative data

Multivariate testing

Use multivariate testing to test multiple aspects of different designs to see how they work together.

  • Multivariate testing

Metrics

Define metrics to provide ongoing feedback on how your designs meet your product’s goals.

  • Success metrics

Information architecture

Card sorting helps you to provide intuitive organization for your design’s content.

  • Card sorting

Usability testing

Conduct usability tests to get feedback on your designs throughout your product’s development cycle.

  • Usability testing

Visual design

Discover how to test for the visual design — not interactions — to inform your design direction.

  • Visual preference testing
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