Comments on: Twitter Recruiting Members for User Testing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:31:17 +0000

The correct use of the Latin is e.g., (with the comma) not i.e.

By: Lisa Herrod

Lisa Herrod — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:31:52 +0000

Hey listen, let it be known, if any one wants to fly me around the world running user testing sessions, I’m sure I could find some time ;)

By: mrsmiley

mrsmiley — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:26:50 +0000

I think brothercakes argument is for the remote testing, not on-site :)

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:16:44 +0000

@brothercake: Couldn’t that be said for any web application? To be fair, conducting face-to-face user testing in every country for which there are users is likely to be a little cost prohibitive, I would have thought …

By: brothercake

brothercake — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:00:35 +0000

I’d put it a little more strongly:

For an application with global reach, is it not a little short-sighted to conduct user-testing only in one part of one country? Isn’t there inevitably going to be a huge interest bias in favour of the culture and useage patterns of participants who live in northern california?

By: Lisa Herrod

Lisa Herrod — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:51:13 +0000

thanks Haidoura ;)

Yes I do agree with you, it would be great to be able to participate remotely in user testing sessions for apps that have such a strong global presence.

Though having said that, as a usability consultant, I much prefer to work directly with the participants. I think you can get a much greater depth of understanding by actually talking to some one as opposed to studying statistical data. But again, these two methods provide very different information. And in all honesty, if I had the chance to fly about around the world conducting interviews, I’d choose that over sitting at a desk crunching analytics :)

By: haidoura

haidoura — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:38:42 +0000

you know this is a very great opportunity,
but for us as a programmers we prefer if we can have multiple remote tasks that can be done from behind our pc.
i hope in the coming future we can see some posts here for such links..

good post Lisa .