This doesn't have to be just the language that the person conducting the
test knows. It goes even further. I remember at least one case where the
user could understand English, but couldn't speak it, so he listened to
Pau, but replied mostly in Russian, and later I translated the recording.
On a m
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Steven do I understand correctly that there is no user testing except in
> English ?
>
You can only do usability testing (i.e. sit down with a person and listen
to them talk, or do it remotely) if you understand their language.
Otherwise yo
Hoi,
Steven do I understand correctly that there is no user testing except in
English ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7 March 2014 00:47, Steven Walling wrote:
> From: David Gerard
> Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?
> To: Wikim
On Mar 7, 2014 12:48 AM, "Steven Walling" wrote:
>
> From: David Gerard
> Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?
> To: Wikimedia developers
>
> (Veering off topic: So what does WMF use for a usability lab, anyway?)
>
>
> ...not s
On 7 March 2014 00:17, Trevor Parscal wrote:
> I believe, from lots of first-hand experience and some research on the
> subject, that anytime you can get at least 5 users in front of a product
> and run them through well written tasks you are going to reveal about 80%
> of the problems. Getting f
I just wanted to add that in the past, as many people know, we tried a few
different kinds of testing and even hired a usability testing firm to help
us. We conducted research in a lab here in SF and also did some remote
testing, compensating participants with gift cards.
We learned that lab testi
On 6 March 2014 23:47, Steven Walling wrote:
> more automated remote testing and is $35/test (this is really cheap since
> the going US rate for an in-person test is something like a $50 Amazon gift
> card).
off-topic on off-topic: Offer swag instead. Wikipedia branded stuff is
presently uncomm
From: David Gerard
Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?
To: Wikimedia developers
(Veering off topic: So what does WMF use for a usability lab, anyway?)
...not sure what Kaldari did. In this case, he may have simply sat down
wit
