Nate Bolt writes about the pros and cons of remote usability testing. To quote: n-person user research used to be the only game in town, and as with most industry practices, its procedures were developed, refined, standardized, and then became entrenched in the corporate R&D product development cycle. Practically everything gets tested in a lab, [...]
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Martin Belam has written a followup post on creating “guerilla user testing” videos. To quote: Yesterday I posted my 10 tips for ambush ‘guerilla user testing’. Once you’ve got some footage of people using your website, you need to find the best way to present that back to the business. I like to make a [...]
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Martin Belam has written a post on “ambush guerilla user testing“. To quote: Over the last couple of years I’ve been practicing ‘ambush guerilla user testing’, which is basically the art of pouncing on lone people in cafes and public spaces, and quickly filming them whilst they use a website for a couple of minutes. [...]
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Bill Albert explores the practicalities of online usability testing. To quote: The motivation for this article is to help UX researchers keep an open mind about online usability testing. There are some researchers who have been using this approach for years and find it useful (in certain situations). Others are new to it, and wanting [...]
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Dave Obrien has posted details on tree testing, a mechanism for evaluating a draft information architecture. To quote: As we started experimenting with “card-based classification” on paper, it became clear that, while the technique was simple, it was tedious to create the cards on paper, recruit participants, record the results manually, and enter the data [...]
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