[IxDA Discuss] aquire usability labrats

[Ted Boren]

I don't know about "labrats" ;-) , but if you want to recruit "usability test participants", there are several good resources out there with recruiting tips, tricks, non-disclosure forms, and other helpful stuff if you're just getting started with a recruiting program. A few:
http://stcsig.org/usability/resources/toolkit/toolkit.html"A Practical Guide to Usability Testing", Dumas & Redish. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1841500208/sr=8-1/qid=1147896177/ref=sr_1_1/103-6469820-9715025?%5Fencoding=UTF8233 Tips and Tricks for Recruiting Users as Participants in Usability Studies, Nielsen/ Norman Group. http://www.nngroup.com/reports/tips/recruiting/With regards to the "heuristic evaluation" comments--heuristics are a nice first cut, a way to clear out the big rocks, but they aren't a replacement for a good usability study. I also agree that getting a bunch of external people to aprticipate in a heuristic review is not a good use of money for most projects. If you don't have the people in-house, do it yourself and follow up with testing to confirm.
 
Good Luck * or is it... Lycka Till?
 
Ted

>>> "Simon Asselbergs" <interaction-designer at lycos.com> 5/17/2006 5:28 AM >>>
Hi All,

If you have coorporate products which you want to test in a usability lab. Hoewever the products are secret you probably don't want to test outside users nor you probably want programmers to be subject of the tests. How to get proper test-persons, or make good contracts? Has anyone experience in this?

Cheers,

Simon Asselbergs

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