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http://www.uiconf.com/8/articles/field_studies_article.html
While techniques, such as focus groups, usability tests, and surveys, can lead to valuable insights, the most powerful tool in the toolbox is the ‘field study’. Field studies get the team immersed in the environment of their users and allow them to observe critical details for which there is no other way of discovering.

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Industry research shows up to 75 percent of shoppers abandon their online shopping carts before completing the checkout process. I’m not sure how comfortable I am with that statistic, but shopping cart abandonment is a significant problem.

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoreau

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