User testing is often seen by business owners as an extra luxury to craft the perfect website, and unfortunately not seen as necessary to create a good website. It can be expensive, and add a lot of time to a project. User testing, though, is an invaluable tool which is often vital to the success of the web site or application. Without it, you never really know if your website was designed properly - you never know if it accomplishes what it needs to.

There's no reason basic testing can't be done for cheap. With Amazon Mechanical Turk, any website design can at least go through some form or user testing for less than $10! Spending as much $50 or $100 will enable you to go through a few iterations, and get results from dozens of testers.… Read more »