User testing
Jesse Vincent
jesse at fsck.com
Thu May 17 02:15:56 BST 2007
On May 16, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> Hello. Here's an idea which may have been brought to you by too
> much gin and
> too little patience with people asserting things they have no
> evidence for.
>
> We have open source code; we have open source design; why don't we
> have open
> source user testing? Jakob Nielsen has umpteen reports of proper
> scientific
> testing of how people use websites and other applications, but they
> all cost
> $$$ - which is perfectly understandable, because he's a business
> and so needs
> to make money.
>
You mean like http://openusability.org?
> Is it beyond us as a group to come up with things like a validatable
> questionnaire, or a cheaply-built eye-tracking device, or a couple
> of people
> capable of performing interviews and doing content analysis on the
> results?
>
> Kake
>
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