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Poortvliet: Basic Usability Testing at Home - notes from the workshop at Akademy 2013

[Posted August 19, 2013 by jake]

Continuing our recent usability theme (GNOME usability and Ubuntu usability), Jos Poortvliet has some tips and lessons learned from a usability workshop that he and Björn Balazs ran at this year's Akademy. "The goal was to teach developers how to do 'basic usability testing at home' by guiding users through their application and watching the process. To help developers who didn't make it (and those who did but can use a reminder) I hereby share a description of the process and some tips and notes." Videos from two of the tests are shown as well.

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Posted Aug 20, 2013 10:38 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

Interesting series of articles, but something which they don't make much mention of, but which would probably be rather relevant to a lot of FLOSS developers is usability testing when you don't have testers in physical proximity. Not all software is testable by "random" people.