...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.
The problem is that these students "know too much" and do not really represent
the wider world of computer users.
The user tests are more like heuristic evaluations and tend to miss some of the
more subtle (potentially confusing) elements.
Sunny
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University of Michigan School of Information
Human-Computer Interaction Specialization
www.si.umich.edu/
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