From the course: Practical Design Thinking
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Challenge: Run a simple usability test
From the course: Practical Design Thinking
Challenge: Run a simple usability test
- This challenge is where you find out whether your interface ideas fit with users' expectations. To run this challenge, you'll need your paper prototype interface screens, the task that you want your participants to complete written on a piece of paper, and, obviously, some participants. Normally, you'd recruit representative users to be your participants, but for this challenge, it's okay to find friends or colleagues who haven't been involved in the work you've done so far on this interface. I tend to run no more than five people per round of testing. It's early in the development process, and you'll learn enough from five participants to know what the common issues are. You'll need to choose one team member to be the moderator, the person who interacts with the participants, and one to be the computer, the person who places the correct interface elements on the table in front of the participant throughout the session. Every other team member should watch quietly from a distance…
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