At next weekend’s UXCampVancouver, Elizabeth Snowden will be giving a talk on remote usability methods. Check it out if you’re in the area!
Update: Sold out!
Archive > November 2009
UXCampVancouver 2009
Screening Out Liars From Your Usability Study
A new article on 90 Percent of Everything discusses a few ways to screen out potential “fake users” who lie about their qualifications to participate in your study:
In fact, a lot of liars can be screened out by writing a really good screener questionnaire. For example, here’s a decoy question that the Mozilla metrics team [...]
22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools
Over at MarketingProfs’ 22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools series, our recruiting tool Ethnio gets a shout-out. Here are the pros and cons they mention:
Pros: Enables usability researchers to acquire actual users from the website for testing.
Cons: Researchers must be available when a participant response is received, and the tool is for recruiting participants [...]
Oldie but Goodie
From UserCentered.net, an overview of moderated remote research, which they call “remote synchronous research”.
‘Remote user research and testing’ is where the user and the facilitator are in different places. Remote user research can fall into two categories, ‘synchronous’ and ‘asynchronous’.
In synchronous protocols, a facilitator interacts with a participant who is remote and leads the research [...]