[IxDA Discuss] Usability testing at conferences

[Michele Marut]

Yes, we have used conferences for stakeholder/user interviews and concept
evaulations and/or walk throughs.
The advantages are that we can often get the right type of users from
different geographical regions as well as a mix of small to large
businesses.

One caveat is often the people attending the conferences are expert users
and/or have money that might make them use different accessories with the
product.
For example, some of the people we interviewed always brought a laptop which
could connect to the product into the field with them. This was not the
majority of the user segment and so we then  needed to also look at those
using it without other accessories.

Michele Marut