10 Best Slide Decks for Usability Optimization

A complete list of the best slide decks for usability optimization, containing useful tipps for usability testing, user experience design and user research.

I’m missing your favorite? Be sure to add a comment at the bottom letting me know which one you would include.

1. 5 Usability-Tasks you haven’t tried so far

Usability testing can be a really easy thing to do. You can do almost anything wrong – as long as you get your tasks right, your usability testing will always work.

Here you’ll find 5 example tasks that can provide new and different insights.

5 usability tasks you haven’t tried so far from Userbrain

2. Introduction to Usability Testing: The DIY Approach

Jenny Grinblo promises that you’ll be able to plan and facilitate a usability test, identify usability problems and decide which problems to tackle first at the end of her presentation.

Let’s give it a try!

Introduction to Usability Testing: The DIY Approach – GA, London January 13th, 2013 from Evgenia (Jenny) Grinblo

3. Usability vs. User Experience: What’s the difference?

Is there really a difference between usability and user experience?

Find out in this colorful presentation by Domain7.

Usability vs. User Experience: What’s the difference? from Domain7

4. Lean Usability

Want to know how Meetup does lean usability testing? Learn more about their process in this great slide deck by Andreas Glusman and Anna DeYoung.

Lean Usability from glusman

5. Steve Krug: The Lazy Person’s Guide to a Better World

Want to know why most serious usability problems often remain for a long time?

Learn more in this awesome presentation by Steve Krug.

Steve Krug: Lazy Person’s Guide to a Better World – UX Lisbon 2010 from Steve Krug

6. The 7 Most Common Usability Issues

Kissmetrics has collected the 7 most common and frustrating usability issues on Slideshare.

Does your site have any of this issues? Find out:

The 7 Most Common Usability Issues from Kissmetrics on SlideShare

7. Visual Definitions of User Experience

This constantly growing collection contains more than 200 diagrams to present the diversity and evolution of User Experience as a concept and in relation to the other disciplines.

Visual Definitions of User Experience from Gena Drahun

8. Sketching the user experience

Antonio De Pasquale describes his work with paper prototypes, wireframes and visual design and combines his personal experience with outstanding graphics.

Sketching the user experience from Antonio De Pasquale

9. 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design

“User experience design is not user interface design” and 9 other common misconceptions from Whitney Hess presented at the Pittsburgh Web Design Day.

10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design from Whitney Hess

10. Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics explained

Jakob Nielsen developed the method of ‘Heuristic Evaluation’ to help identify problems with an interface. This presentation explains the 10 rules of thumb or heuristics with examples.

10 Usability Heuristics explained from Craft Design