It’s becoming increasingly common to want to talk to users of technologies in other countries other than your own. Often times, this means communicating with people who are not native speakers of your language. This can be a very challenging aspect to a project, especially when it comes to recruiting, and it is something that [...] Read more – ‘A Native Language Approach’.
An excerpt from our forthcoming Remote Research book, out soon by Rosenfeld Media! ——————— 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 [...] Read more – ‘Time-Aware Research’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘Screening Out Liars From Your Usability Study’.
Over at MarketingProfs’ 22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools series, our recruiting tool Ethnio gets a shout-out. Here are the pros and cons they mention: Pros: Enables usability researchers to acquire actual users from the website for testing. Cons: Researchers must be available when a participant response is received, and the tool is for [...] Read more – ‘22 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘Live Recruiting for Remote Research’.
