Hi Mark, Thanks for sharing. We just had our annual user conference and were able to take an online concept of a Design Playground to brick and mortar. The Design Playground at the conference allowed users to do Usability Testing on a next generation product. It was an overwhelming success - there were 1000 attendees at the conference and we conducted 84 tests within a 3 day period. This was done with 4 workstations each running an independent scenario. I have submitted a proposal to present at UPA to discuss the success (still waiting to hear).
We have some lessons learned that but now they want this to be the center of the Marketplace (bigger and better). The hardest part has been compiling the results. Maybe in my spare time over the holidays I will be able to share more details in paper form.... www.playground.blackbaud.com http://www.prweb.com/releases/Blackbaud/Conference_for_Nonprofits/prweb5 70326.htm Have a wonderful holiday! Trit Mulligan Blackbaud -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 5:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Extremely rapid usability testing Hi all, There was an earlier thread http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=18865 on usability testing at conferences that I had posted to for my particular challenge. First I would like to thank all those who responded. I turned this project into a grad paper in HCI readings at the U. of Calgary, plus developed a successful methodology that allowed us to usability test a new product at the PhotoPlus 2007 trade show in New York. http://www.photoplusexpo.com/ppe/index.jsp This show is huge in the Photographic Industry; 27,000 visitors attended this year. Over 300 people stopped by our booth, and we ran usability tests on 14 participants in a three day period. All in all a great success and an excellent learning experience. One of my biggest roadblocks in developing this methodology was that it was clear that others have done usability testing at conferences, but NO ONE is publishing their work on how they did it. So I literally created a methodology based on a mish mash of HCI techniques after reading several papers on time constrained HCI efforts. I have been encouraged by several colleagues that real world methodologies like this need to get published so the techniques can be used, critiqued, and improved. I certainly would have appreciated a good dose of criticism when I was developing this. Thus a New Year's resolution for me is to get this published, hopefully Interactions magazine. Meanwhile, if any are interested in a copy of the paper please email me off list. Cheers and Merry Christmas Mark ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
