Re: [Usability] how to make usability test?

[Jason Hoover <jasonhoover verizon net>]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 13:45 +0200, Thilo Pfennig wrote:

> Well, maybe the different teams like the Evolution guys can do studies
> of their application alone? 

I gets it. Sort of like a sort of start-to-finish guide on the process?
Maybe an outline like;

1) Foreword
2) Before conducting a study
2.1) Using the right verision
2.2) checking known issues...
2.3) Selecting the right kinds of tests
3) Types of studies and selecting participants
3.1) Observational
3.2) Ethnographic
3.3) Blah blah blah, stuff I don't fully understand...
4) Recording data
4.1) Useful data
4.2) NOT useful data
5) Compiling results
6) Submitting to X,Y, and Z.

Of course, this is a horrible outline, but such a document would be very
useful. Sorry if I misunderstood you earlier.

At some point in the past in the year 2005, Calum Benson wrote:

> Something like (some bits of) uzilla might be kind of interesting to
> experiment with, too:
> 
> http://uzilla.net/uzilla/info/using_uzilla/test.cfm 

Hmm, not sure I understand what you mean, like giving a certain group of
users a set of tasks and asking them to rate their difficulty?

I suspect it'd be hard to code something to time and report like that,
though it'd get an 8 for coolness factor.

> (FWIW, I've just fixed the broken links on that page...)

Thank you. I'm sorry I missed it before the move though.

-Jason H.

--
Any opinions are insincere and not necessarily those of Jason Hoover.