Much of the product's extended gestation focused on user testing, the refinement payoff of which is evident.
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Following many hours of user testing, it has been refined even further, to improve day-to-day productivity for novices and experts alike.
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Social media is used in marketing, market research, communications, support, product development, user testing, talent recruiting and a good deal more.
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According to executive director of Government Digital Services Mike Bracken, they performed online surveys, as well as face-to-face and remote user testing.
Traditionally, new processors have arrived on the iPad and then, after extensive user testing, squeezed into the shell of the next model iPhone.
Mr Wales said that he had tried to resist using his picture, but user testing had shown the organisation received more money by using his face.
Commenting Mr Macklin said sponsored results must be clearly marked and though they might help with some queries user testing showed that people need to be able to spot the difference.
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Extensive user testing, as is going on with the current version of Glass to determine preferred use cases, will be required to see how immersive is too immersive and in which situations.
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Apple has performed extensive user-testing, he noted, to reach these conclusions.
During user-testing the FishPi team found that their young charges were quick to make more changes to the coding than were suggested by the platform itself.
The package consists of a cradle that contains an assortment of lenses and filters which line up with the handset's camera, along with an app that guides the user through the testing process.
We need such information to fulfill our vision for the house to be a flexible platform for testing and user feedback of new student-developed smarter living technologies.
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The app spends roughly a week collecting data from this sensor and testing it against the user's emotional state.
Described by a PR rep we contacted as a "new user experience" the company is testing, the assistant talks to users directly and asks them to rate a few movies on the spot before providing new suggestions.
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There's no mandated periodic testing to see if the user is really staying off these dangerous chemicals.
Relying on this abundant user feedback, as well as lab testing, the company began to isolate what exactly was amiss and, along the way, discovered what it meant for a product to be truly wearable.
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Orthocare's Magellan product, in beta testing, is imbedded with wireless technology the user can control with the company's smartphone app.
Mobile advertiser AdMob has been testing out a new type of iPhone ad that it says generated more user engagement than its standard ads.
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Open source projects require the writing of code, sure, but also developing documentation and training methods, managing and researching communities of users, testing the quality of existing code and designing the interfaces and interactions of user experience.
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With a great data system and assessments in place along with a large user base, the platform will be able to start to do A-B testing between different videos to be able to personalize learning for each student.
"We have spent months designing, engineering and testing a complete juice pack family of products, dialing in the details to make the user experience flawless from the moment the consumer puts the case on their iPhone 5, " said Ross Howe, vice president of marketing at mophie.
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