Our field trip to Consumer Reports

Like Consumer Reports, we’re passionate about the user experience. So we couldn’t wait to attend the recent World Usability Day event that the company hosted at their headquarters in Yonkers, NY.

We loved hearing about the redesign of their ratings icons and checking out their impressive testing facility. How did we rate the experience? Excellent, of course.

Created for the digital age, Consumer Reports’ colorful new icons aren’t bound by the print limitations of their older icons.

The redesigned icons in action.

Inside the Consumer Reports testing lab: an apartment mock-up for testing robotic vacuum cleaners. Who knew there were so many?

Bike helmets. Dishwashers. Computers. You never know what you’ll see next in the testing facility.

Joe in the Refrigeration Lab has one of the cooler jobs @ConsumerReports. #WUD2019 #NYCUXPA

— Peter Bjorknas (@pbjorknas) November 14, 2019