Welcome to UsabilityOne’s shiny new blog.

A quick introduction about us, and what we plan to do in this blog:

We are an Australian based usability research agency with offices in (not so) sunny Melbourne, and (slightly more) sunny Sydney. We conduct user research and usability testing for a wide range of clients, to help them improve the user experience of their interfaces.

As a team, we frequently share interesting articles, tools, discussions and resources with each other. This blog is a place for us to share these with you, as well as to put up some thoughts and opinions of our own. You can respond in kind, and share your thoughts on our posts, as well as add content which you feel would add to the discussion.

Another usability blog?

Yes, there are a lot of blogs out there writing about user experience, and we definitely don’t want to just add to the noise. We hope to be different in a few ways. We like to think that we have a unique perspective on a number of aspects of usability.

For starters, we are not a design agency. Whilst we work closely with designers on most projects, we focus on the research side of things. Where others may focus on principles of design, we focus on the principles of research design. And how that can help you to design a better user interface.

Additionally, being a consultancy we get to work on a lot of different projects. We work on all kinds of interfaces, large and small, stationary and mobile, and get to experience many different approaches to solving user’s problems and meeting their needs. We frequently find that some of the best solutions to an issue come from a different industry or platform to the design in question.

These differences will also mean we can offer a unique set of perspectives on usability and user experience. Hopefully, what we write in this blog will sit nicely alongside those you already have in your feed reader or morning reading list.

So don’t be shy

This blog has been set up to enable a conversation with you, the reader – our clients and peers. If you have a question for us, disagree with us, want to show us something, or just want to say hi then please do. Leave a comment, or send us an email if you would prefer. Look forward to hearing from you.

The U1 Team.