[IxDA Discuss] Technology for User Research

[Peter Merholz]

Adaptive Path is a big fan of Ethnio, a tool for remote user  
recruiting and usability testing:

http://www.ethnio.com/

I hate lab usability, for reasons cited here:
http://adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000569.php

--peter

On Sep 3, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Rob Tannen wrote:

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> I'm in the process of looking at the past, present and future of  
> technology used for conducting user research/usability analysis of  
> products and digital interfaces.  I'd appreciate any publicly  
> shareable examples of innovative tools that you may have used/built  
> to conduct user research.  I may include certain examples for a NYC  
> Usability Professionals Association presentation scheduled for  
> October.
>
> Thanks.
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