Thank you Ron, very useful insight. My strategy was to keep the communication between the user and the test facilitator fairly open during the open-ended session and have the facilitator probe the user as the user does the stuff. For example, immediately after the user first interacts with the widget, I was going to pose the question "what do you think the widget does?", and so on.
After reading your insight I'm wondering if it's better pose the questions after the open-ended part is done, and before starting the task-based part of the test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
