Thank you krush and pgreasby for the wonderful feedback. As a usability testing virgin I do appreciate the tips.
Dana, it is a wonderful surprise to read your reply. Indeed I read the second edition and found the book very insightful, using some of its templates in conjunction with other to develop a test plan (still in progress). You are on the spot regarding the questions we are trying to address We still havent recruited the users, we're doing that this week. Our target user group is very broad (pretty much anyone who visits blogs/portals/etc.), so I am only making a distinction between light and power internet users. We're also going to test two versions of the prototype (A & B). So my strategy is to use 12 testers, 6 light users and 6 power uers (nicely varied age group). And then within each group, have 3 users test version A and 3 users test version B. So at the end, we would have 6 users who have tested A and 6 who have tested version B. I will definitely take note of your advice about not worrying too much about tracking time. I chose that as a measure rather arbitrarily, mostly because I thought if most users don't notice it within 30-40 seconds, then in a real-life scenario people would have probably gone on to another page already and have totally missed the widget. Anyway, thanks again for your replies, they are extremely helpful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38904 ________________________________________________________________ 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
