[IxDA Discuss] discount usability testing on the web, e.g. http://www.usertesting.com/

[Sunny Beach]

...The critical component of
 your usability study should be testing with likely future users, not
 people chosen for their testing ability.

The idea above is very important. As a graduate student at the University of Michigan in HCI, it is really nice (easy) to use peer students for user tests. The problem is that these students "know too much" and do not really represent the wider world of computer users.

The user tests are more like heuristic evaluations and tend to miss some of the more subtle (potentially confusing) elements.

Sunny
 
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