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Effective Usability Testing – Knowledge of User Centered Design is a Key Requirement

User-centered design (UCD) is a type of user interface design approach and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of end users of a product are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. Impact of effective user centered design is clearly evident in the current ongoing phenomenon of rapid Smartphone and Mobile App adoption. Smartphone are rapidly becoming the primary method of interaction for consumers and businesses worldwide. The explosion of consumer apps can be seen in just about every industry. By 2015, International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that 182.7 billion mobile apps will be downloaded. That’s a 1600% increase from the 10.7 billion apps downloaded in 2010. This paper offers a brief summary of few key User Centered Design approaches as they would provide good foundation for an effective usability testing. Along with this, this paper provides details about various usability test aspects that can be performed on a web site along with listing of few tools that could help in those aspects. KeywordsUser Centered Design, Usability Testing, Usability Testing Tools