An excerpt from our forthcoming Remote Research book, out soon by Rosenfeld Media!
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The soul of remote research is that it lets you conduct what we call Time-Aware Research.
By now UX researchers are familiar with the importance of understanding the usage context of an interface–the physical environment where people are normally using an interface. Remote research [...]
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Time-Aware Research
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 [...]
Live Recruiting for Remote Research
In an article for Boxes and Arrows, Paul Nuschke lists five phases of a usability study:
Step 1: Sales & Kickoff
Step 2: Recruitment
Step 3: Preparation
Step 4: Testing
Step 5: Analysis & Reporting
This post is about that second step, where you’re recruiting users to participate in your study. Traditionally this has been done one of two ways: either [...]