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What are the best ways to test a game's user interface and user experience?

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Testing a game's user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) is crucial for ensuring that your game is engaging, intuitive, and accessible to your target audience. UI refers to the visual elements and interactions that allow players to control and navigate the game, while UX refers to the overall satisfaction and enjoyment that players derive from the game. In this article, we will explore some of the best ways to test your game's UI and UX, and how to use the feedback to improve your game design.

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1 Define your goals and metrics

Before you start testing your game's UI and UX, you need to have a clear idea of what you want to achieve and how you will measure it. For example, you might want to test how easy it is for players to learn the game's mechanics, how well they can perform certain tasks, how immersed they feel in the game world, or how satisfied they are with the game's aesthetics and feedback. Depending on your goals, you can use different metrics to evaluate your game's UI and UX, such as completion rates, error rates, retention rates, ratings, reviews, or qualitative feedback.

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Rashi Gupta

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Ideally, the goals should be derived from the KPIs set during the design initiation stage. This makes sure that not only the designs work for the user but also aligns with the business goals/success metrics.

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If you are testing games you are testing emotional response and retention, because game (as a product) sells emotions. You cannot use the classic UX: consists of effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, and errors; because as game designer I might want to make a specific part of the game/system less effective. For that reason you focus on emotions and retention: did the player felt the right emotions? what was the intensity of the emotions? Does the player want to play the game again?

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2 Choose your testing methods and tools

Testing your game's UI and UX requires various methods and tools, tailored to your budget, time, and resources. Usability testing involves observing and interviewing a representative sample of players to identify any issues with the UI or UX. A/B testing entails creating two or more versions of your game or feature and measuring the results with analytics, split testing, or heat maps. Playtesting invites a larger and diverse group of players to play your game or beta version and collect feedback from forums, social media, or feedback forms.

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If you need to have actual players data, you need play testers. Invite them, ask them to play the game, record them (face, screen and hands), make them fill a survey, and do a narrative interview. Face data will give you information on the emotional response Screen what they are doing hands, how they are interacting with the control scheme, is easy to use? they make a lot of mistakes? they feel fatigue? the survey is to understand how they have perceived the experience The narrative interview for qualitative data

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3 Analyze and iterate

Once you have collected enough data and feedback from your testing methods and tools, you need to analyze and interpret them to find out what works and what doesn't in your game's UI and UX. You can use tools like spreadsheets, charts, or graphs to organize and visualize your data and feedback, and look for patterns, trends, or outliers. You can also use tools like personas, scenarios, or user journeys to empathize and understand your players' needs, preferences, and motivations. Based on your analysis, you can then make changes and improvements to your game's UI and UX, and test them again until you reach your desired goals and metrics.

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4 Test early and often

One of the best practices for testing your game's UI and UX is to start testing as early as possible in your game development process, and to test frequently and consistently throughout. This will help you to identify and fix any issues or problems before they become too costly or difficult to change, and to validate and refine your design decisions based on real user feedback and data. Testing early and often will also help you to create a more user-centered and user-friendly game that meets and exceeds your players' expectations and needs.

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5 Involve your team and stakeholders

Another best practice for testing your game's UI and UX is to involve your team and stakeholders in the testing process, and to share and discuss your findings and insights with them. Your team and stakeholders can include your game developers, designers, artists, writers, testers, publishers, or clients. By involving them in the testing process, you can benefit from their expertise, perspectives, and suggestions, and ensure that everyone is on the same page and aligned with your game's vision and goals. You can also use tools like dashboards, reports, or presentations to communicate and showcase your testing results and outcomes to your team and stakeholders.

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Involving your team and stakeholders is good, but you need to understand few things first: - the more the team works on the project the more they get used to it, the less objective they are, and they became more and more blind to UX problem because they get used to the project. - Stakeholders have bias: for a game designer all the problems of the game can be solved with game design or vice versa all the game problems are never connected to game design (based on ego) that's true for all stakeholders - stakeholders have objectives, if you ask a stakeholders their feedback will always push toward their objective

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6 Learn from other games and sources

The final best way to test your game's UI and UX is to learn from other games and sources that are relevant and inspiring to your game genre, theme, or style. You can play and analyze other games that have similar or different UI and UX elements, and see what works and what doesn't for them, and why. You can also use sources like books, articles, podcasts, or videos that cover topics and best practices related to game UI and UX design and testing, and apply them to your own game. By learning from other games and sources, you can expand your knowledge and skills, and discover new ideas and possibilities for your game's UI and UX.

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follow the must and must not techniques to avoid the survivorship bias Must do: what successful projects have done right, what players love Must not: what players hate/dislike of unsuccessful projects

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7 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Rashi Gupta

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Recruitment of the participants/testers is also an essential part of the whole process. Understanding the ICP and the testers' motivation helps design the test scenarios more effectively, delivering better results. It is also important to be careful while analysing the feedback and map it to the testers' biases.

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1 Define your goals and metrics

2 Choose your testing methods and tools

3 Analyze and iterate

4 Test early and often

5 Involve your team and stakeholders

6 Learn from other games and sources

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1 Define your goals and metrics

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4 Test early and often

5 Involve your team and stakeholders

6 Learn from other games and sources

7 Here’s what else to consider

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