{"title":"Smarter usability testing: practical techniques for developing products","authors":"Jared M. Spool, Carolyn Snyder, M. Robinson","doi":"10.1145/257089.257375","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The goal of usability testing is to get timely, useful information, but doing this on a regular basis can be difficult and taxing. Planning and conducting tests takes time, and if the development team doesn’t get information in a usable form, they will rightfully ignore the results. This tutorial looks at usability testing from 3 angles — planning, conducting tests, and summarizing the data — with an emphasis on practical suggestions for making these activities more efficient while keeping them focused on the users of the test results: the entire development team.","PeriodicalId":281135,"journal":{"name":"Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/257089.257375","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The goal of usability testing is to get timely, useful information, but doing this on a regular basis can be difficult and taxing. Planning and conducting tests takes time, and if the development team doesn’t get information in a usable form, they will rightfully ignore the results. This tutorial looks at usability testing from 3 angles — planning, conducting tests, and summarizing the data — with an emphasis on practical suggestions for making these activities more efficient while keeping them focused on the users of the test results: the entire development team.