Near end of year resolutions?

I've still got to write about UX week. In the mean time, its almost the end of the year and if you are thinking about new years resolutions why not take have your website in for a check up next year. You get your car and own health hopefully regularly maintained, but do you know how healthy your website is?

A website heath check is a quick and inexpensive way to evaluate website effectiveness in terms of:

• Fulfilling your business goals
• Search engine visibility
• Customer/website visitor fulfillment
• Ease of use and 'findability' of key content
  
• Compliance with best practice usability measures

Add ons include recruiting representatives from your target market to round out the check up to a full indepth check and discover:

• How well is your site working for people - By conducting usability testing with participants key tasks and goals
• Got burning questions from marketing and product managers about a particular direction you're going in? Allocate time for a qualitative research interview -to test some ideas with a snapshot of your target market.
  

Commissioning a full website health check will produces richer findings, and give you valuable insights into the health of your website and direction for any redesign exercise.

A great DIY healthcheck site can be found at www.uxhealthcheck.com or you can look at the directory in www.upassoc.org for a practitioner in your area to help you out.

UPA consultants directory
UX alliance
DIY resources from Infodesign Australia

Note: I don't endorse nor get any incentives for listing these folks. I know many of them but presenting these links as illustrative only. I accept no liability for any loss or damage etc etc, my lawyer can beat up your lawyer.