These steps involved goal setting, study of existing practice, field-level tests, and feedbacks.
From several tests and feedbacks from customers, the expected goals have been completed.
After testing and feedback from the beta site, New Zealand expects the new Govt.nz site to go live in 2014, and by 2017 wants all new government services to be digital-by-default.
The next stage after this is beta, when a typical studio might choose to allow a larger playerbase to sample things for testing and feedback – but Mojang is not a typical studio.
Sample tablets will soon be sent to students for testing and feedback, a process the ministry officials said should be concluded in the next few months.
But Katz says that the design choices they've made here are based on extensive user testing and feedback.
It also reminds testers that the beta build will "have some bugs and break at times," which is why Mozilla needs testing and feedback.
The company first launched its website into beta last November, and just relaunched the site a couple of weeks ago, following user testing and feedback.
I doubt Google was happy about delaying the consumer launch of Chrome until next year, but this window of testing and feedback will likely prove quite valuable.
Previously, the company, a recent 500 Startups grad, had been testing a more traditional magazine-style experience with a cover, index and pages, but decided to move to the updated design based on user testing and feedback.
