Re: Usability Testing

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Re: Usability Testing
	2007-01-23 08:18:13
>Designers should test *whenever* there arises a need, not when some >artificial schedule milestone demands it. That's deliverables culture. Yes. And that's what I said. >Users are not there to tell/insinuate/divine/feed/direct/validate our >designs. We're there to observe what they do and learn. Users are as biased >as they get. Whether it's 5 or 12 or 16 or 37.5, it's very difficult to >untangle their "input/feedback" for anything approaching "independent >validation." All true. But "independent validation" refers to the testers are from an outside agency, it doesn't refer to the participants. Bill ------------ IA Summit 2007: Enriching IA Rich Information, Rich Interaction, Rich Relationships March 22-26, 2007, Las Vegas, NV www.iasummit.org ----- When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible. *Plain text, please; NO Attachments Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/ ________________________________________ Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-lasis.org Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l