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Usability Testing: You Get What You Pay For

A valid and useful usability test takes time and expertise. Shortcuts and lack of rigorous controls invariably reduce the validity and usefulness of the data generated by the test. Here I offer a description of some of the key ingredients of a good usability test (for more detail, see Mayhew, 1999), and some examples of poorly designed or run testing.  more >>

 

 

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