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Apr 6 |
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Apr 2 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Dec 17 |
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What research method should I use to find Top Tasks for a intranet site? And, as I explained above, the relevant number is almost always going to be the number per group/location/persona (which there should almost surely be several for an intranet), not the overall one. |
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Dec 17 |
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What research method should I use to find Top Tasks for a intranet site? In fact, there is a rationale and empirical evidence for this in some old Nielsen publications but in any case here the question was about prioritizing tasks, not identifying a bunch of issues. No matter what type of data you consider (proportion who name a given task as most important, forced choice, importance ratings…), there is no way 5 people is enough to tell things apart with any kind of reliability except in the most extreme cases. |
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Dec 17 |
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What research method should I use to find Top Tasks for a intranet site? The 5-to-10 figure was spread for many years in respect to usability tests. It's been popular because it justifies the whole “guerilla usability” approach and makes it easier to get a project approved but it has also been thoroughly criticized and is partly wishful thinking. |
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Dec 17 |
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What research method should I use to find Top Tasks for a intranet site? I am not sure what a “heuristic or cognitive task evaluation” would be (I know “task analysis” but that's not relevant here and “cognitive walkthroughs” or “heuristic evaluations” but they don't require access to any real user at all) but have you done any survey? More importantly, how would you know if 5-10 people are actually enough? Is it base on some statistical reasoning? Have you done any large sample one and compared the results? |
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Dec 16 |
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What research method should I use to find Top Tasks for a intranet site? some more ideas + additional technical issue to consider |
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Dec 16 |
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What research method should I use to find Top Tasks for a intranet site? style |
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Dec 16 |
answered | What research method should I use to find Top Tasks for a intranet site? |
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Dec 16 |
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What research method should I use to find Top Tasks for a intranet site? On what is this advice about 5-10 people for a survey based on? It seems flatly wrong. |
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Dec 13 |
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Which one has more career opportunities: web usability or web accessibility? Worse yet, many job offers suggest that employers are often looking for designers who could somehow create usable things without any test or method – by being empathic, caring about the user, etc. – which runs contrary to everything usability engineering is about. |
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Dec 13 |
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Which one has more career opportunities: web usability or web accessibility? The same goes for accessibility as well, some people have achieved a high level of specialization in this field. You need to know the relevant norms, put together some quality controls, deal with coding intricacies. Whatever your view of “great experiences”, this has become a distinctive position that goes well beyond just “being mindful” of this or that. Calling it all “UX” does not tell us much on what people are actually doing in their jobs. |
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Dec 13 |
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Which one has more career opportunities: web usability or web accessibility? This sort of general speculation tells us very little on the job market and career opportunities. For example, “interaction designers”, “information architects” or “user experience designers” might often be the ones who are responsible for a product's usability but none of these positions involve a primary focus on usability engineering. Hence I wouldn't call them career opportunities in web usability. If you are only “mindful” of something, this is not your career… |
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Dec 13 |
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Which one has more career opportunities: web usability or web accessibility? I have no data to offer but I have the feeling that there are not that many careers in usability per se, possibly even less than a few years ago. Instead, I come across many job offers for “UX designer”, which I consider to be a very different thing despite what people might say on usability being a part of UX and so on. Many employers seem to be looking for designers who can do the odd usability test on the side rather than for people who specialize in usability techniques. |
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Nov 28 |
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Is there any research on the color schemes which work with different genders @Jimmy Breck-McKye and blue actually became associated with the Virgin Mary in the middle of the Middle Ages and was not much appreciated before (see the book “Blue: The History of a Color” by Michel Pastoureau). |
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Nov 17 |
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Simulate Eye-tracking by Photoshop filters? Also, the issue is still somewhat debated but it's not clear we are seeing anything at all during saccades. The destination of the saccade is fixed before the movement starts and cannot be altered during the saccade itself (it's said to be stereotyped and ballistic) and that's what makes the experiment you describe possible. The focus of visual attention is therefore “decided” beforehand based at least in part on peripheral vision so that analyses of the whole image seem very relevant to guess what the gaze path is likely to be. |
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Nov 17 |
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Simulate Eye-tracking by Photoshop filters? Heat maps in particular only reflect fixations and provide no insight on the path through the page or the saccades themselves. |
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Nov 17 |
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Simulate Eye-tracking by Photoshop filters? This is obviously a bit fussy but eye tracking isn't really about saccades, it's about fixations. Your average usability lab eye tracker does not have a temporal resolution sufficient to actually measure saccades, it just records where the gaze is “staying” for a longer time and assumes that what's in between is a saccade. |
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Nov 17 |
answered | Banner Blindness on Non-Profit Web Site With Zero Ads |
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Nov 17 |
answered | Where is the best way to approach hallway usability testing? |
