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I spent the last few months of my life creating the user experience for the new mydeco.com website as they looked to re-launch from an affiliate business model to a fully functioning e-commerce store selling products for the home.

After putting the site live, I ran some remote user testing using whatusersdo to gather evidence of areas within the site that were causing customers bother. After reviewing the videos there were some clear issues, most of which are pretty simple to fix.

Here is a summary of what I found during the tests and some of my proposed solutions. Read the full review

I moved to London last April and I have found the Time Out website an absolute gold mine of amazing things to do around the capital. It makes it really easy to discover upcoming events all over London and has enabled me to explore the city and enjoy my time here all the more.

So when I discovered they had an iPhone app to accompany the website, I was excited to give it a try. However, after giving it a few tries I was left slightly disappointed with what they had created.

So, one afternoon I took it upon myself to re-think the Time Out iPhone app and here is what I think it should be. Read the full review

A recent survey published John Lewis as the premier e-commerce experience in the UK. I wanted to user test this opinion and find out why users enjoy shopping on the website and possibly find a few areas where they could look to improve.

Using the great remote testing tool supplied by whatusersdo I asked 5 participants to shop for a bed that they would buy. After watching the footage back, there were a lot of interesting findings.

*the tests were conducted on July 15th. Some of the website might have changed since filming. Read the full review

Backpage football has been described as “The Messi of Britains football blogs among a galactico of competition” which is a very nice way of telling the audience it’s a blog about football news. Read the full review

Solo is “…the project management tool for the modern freelancer” and the creators have designed a great looking site to promote this web app. Read the full review

Yast is a “Simple online time tracker” that allows you to track how long things are taking. The creators of the application have tried to keep it from becoming bloated by leaving it at that. “Do it, time it, see how long it took.” Read the full review