{"id":132,"date":"2011-10-31T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/userresearch\/?p=132"},"modified":"2011-10-31T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:26:31","slug":"why-not-add-pleasurability-testing-into-our-usability-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2011\/10\/why-not-add-pleasurability-testing-into-our-usability-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not add pleasurability testing into our usability tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Aarron Walter&#8217;s book entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abookapart.com\/products\/designing-for-emotion\">Designing for Emotion<\/a>.\u00a0 Aarron&#8217;s the lead user experience designer for MailChimp.\u00a0 The book, published by A Book Apart, is a fast and easy read giving tons of examples of websites such as Photojojo, Wufoo and Twitter actually designing for humans.\u00a0 He remaps Maslow&#8217;s Hierarchy to include web user&#8217;s needs such as functional, reliable, usable and pleasurable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/userresearch\/2011\/10\/why-not-add-pleasurability-testing-into-our-usability-tests\/pleasurabletesting\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-133\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-133\" title=\"Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs remapped to web users' needs\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/userresearch\/files\/2011\/10\/pleasurabletesting-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2011\/10\/pleasurabletesting-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2011\/10\/pleasurabletesting.png 461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the tools of a user researcher is usability testing, in which we give a user a task and then observe them as they use the product or service to complete that task.\u00a0 Essentially, we&#8217;re testing how usable the service is, but Aarron challenges us to go farther.\u00a0 From here on out, whenever you do a usability test, add a few questions to test the pleasurability.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what the metrics for success are for a pleasurability test &#8211; I think it depends on the product or service &#8211; but we can start with the number of smiles the user makes while completing their task and the number of times we hear &#8220;cool &#8211; I like that&#8221; and &#8220;oh that&#8217;s awesome&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Aarron Walter&#8217;s book entitled Designing for Emotion.\u00a0 Aarron&#8217;s the lead user experience designer for MailChimp.\u00a0 The book, published by A Book Apart, is a fast and &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2011\/10\/why-not-add-pleasurability-testing-into-our-usability-tests\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}