Testing Your Design
After you have completed your design work and have a first cut of your site developed, you should consider testing the design and looking for ways to improve it before final roll-out. The following three sections give you some different tests to try.
Pilot the Site
Taking the site for a test drive with some potential users is a great way to gather ideas for making it better. To do this, round up some people who have some degree of Web-surfing experience but who have not seen the site. Turn them loose on the site and encourage them to look for things they would change. You can even give them a feedback form to fill out with a standard set of questions and an open-ended question for other thoughts they might have.
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