[IxDA Discuss] Do these companies do user research or utesting?

[Christian Crumlish]

Not sure it is different, unless update are driven, say, entirely by an internal business requirements roadmap and not reality-checked against actual user behavior.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jared M. Spool [mailto:jspool at uie.com]
Sent: Thu 11/16/2006 4:20 PM
To: Christian Crumlish
Cc: discuss at ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Do these companies do user research or  utesting?
 
At 06:41 PM 11/16/2006, Christian Crumlish wrote:
>Formal testing? I wonder. I gather that at least Flickr, especially
>during its seemingly neverending beta period, was updated constantly
>based on user behaviors and feature requests. Could that be considered
>"real-world testing"?

How is that different from any other product or service that has more than 
one release?

Jared


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