Hi Ryan, Are you perhaps thinking of Jakob Nielsen's rule of 5? http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html
Kind regards, Angel Anderson Senior Interaction Designer HUGE ---------------------------------- IxDA Los Angeles ---------------------------------- Email: [email protected] Twitter: AngelAnderson Skype: AngelJAnderson On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Chris Ryan <[email protected]>wrote: > I have been looking, unsuccessfully, through back issues of interactions > magazine for an article, published a few years back, written I believe by > someone from Microsoft as part of a debate about statistical significance in > usability testing. There was something of a debate about testing with large > numbers of users, and this article, as I recall, made an eloquent case for > sticking to six to eight participants. Does anyone remember this? Perhaps > I'm wrong in recalling that it was in interactions. > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- ________________________________________________________________ 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
