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Author Marina Lin

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Marina Lin is an Interaction Designer for Mobile Apps at Cars.com. She holds a Master’s in Information Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She has recently contributed a chapter to the textbook “Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication.” Her work has also appeared in Boxes and Arrows, User Experience Magazine, and Business Communication Quarterly.

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Applying Participatory Design To Mobile Testing

As much as we aim to design our mobile apps and websites for contextual use, testing their usability in context can be challenging. One approach to mobile testing is participatory design. A participatory design test session typically takes about an hour and has four parts. In this article, Marina Lin conducted this type of study while researching how visitors to Cars.com’s app use their mobile device while purchasing a car on a dealer’s lot. Read more…