Faith Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apropos of budget-priced testing, has anyone used UserVue from TechSmith?
I've used UserVue it to conduct remote usability tests and have found it to
be easy to use and reliable. You need to of course make sure you have room
to save the recording and it
I've done lots of usability testing and although I find the idea
interesting, it's also flawed at its core:
- The testing protocol is missing since users roam at will through
the web site. And you can't adjust testing on the fly when you
notice that they're having trouble with a particular task.
, December 07, 2007 5:32 AM
To: David Cortright
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] discount usability testing on the web, e.g.
http://www.usertesting.com/
What looks really silly is what they mention on this page:
http://www.usertesting.com/WhoAreUserTesters.aspx
Just by looking
I'm fairly skeptical also, as I think that the usability testing
concept has kinda gone out the window with this. Random browsing with
some opinions isn't really user testing, particularly if they also
start offering advice like this shoudln't be here.
Does anyone know if these users are given
Hey, guys, I think their idea is magnificent but I do agree with you
all about the effectiveness of the evaluations. There are no any
credentials stated and for sure they have nothing to be proud of.
What a constructive talk we can have is why not set up a similar
website to outsource our
What looks really silly is what they mention on this page:
http://www.usertesting.com/WhoAreUserTesters.aspx
Just by looking at the phrase People who are especially good at
usability testing you can imagine that the results can be quite
skewed.
[...] user testers are filtered out [...] because
...The critical component of
your usability study should be testing with likely future users, not
people chosen for their testing ability.
The idea above is very important. As a graduate student at the University of
Michigan in HCI, it is really nice (easy) to use peer students for user tests.
After working mostly for big corps with deep pockets to have dedicated
usability folks on staff, I now find myself in a start-up environment where
I'm pretty much it as far as design goes. I'd like to do some user testing
and would love to outsource it.
Does anyone have experience with
On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:32 PM, David Cortright wrote:
Does anyone have experience with http://www.usertesting.com/ or
other similar services?
Someone sent me this link a few days ago. I'm not sure how much faith
I would put into people using the site and recording themselves
talking about
On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
I'm not sure how much faith
I would put into people using the site and recording themselves
talking about it for usability testing. You will get subjective
feedback on what they think about the site, which is good, and watch
them use parts
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