Time Budgets for Usability Sessions
An argument for staying on target and stop wasting time during Usability Testing ...
"Up to 40% of precious testing time is wasted while users engage in nonessential activities. Far better to focus on watching users perform tasks with the target interface design.
Most design teams spend appallingly little time observing their users' actual behavior. Of course, most companies never perform user testing at all, but even those that do log very few hours of behavioral observation.
The ideal is to designate one day per week -- say, Wednesdays -- as "user day" and bring in four users. New users, of course. It's one of the guidelines for recruiting test users to use fresh users for each test (actually, it's seven guidelines, because the general rule has a few exceptions where it's OK to reuse participants)." continued ... (Via Alertbox)
"Up to 40% of precious testing time is wasted while users engage in nonessential activities. Far better to focus on watching users perform tasks with the target interface design.
Most design teams spend appallingly little time observing their users' actual behavior. Of course, most companies never perform user testing at all, but even those that do log very few hours of behavioral observation.
The ideal is to designate one day per week -- say, Wednesdays -- as "user day" and bring in four users. New users, of course. It's one of the guidelines for recruiting test users to use fresh users for each test (actually, it's seven guidelines, because the general rule has a few exceptions where it's OK to reuse participants)." continued ... (Via Alertbox)
Wasting time during Usability Testing.
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