[Sigia-l] 90% of All Usability Testing is Useless

[Donna Maurer]

On 17 Jun 2004 at 20:15, Dave wrote:

> The question I have is, "Is the web really all that different?"
> Wouldn't those same contextual cues be just as valuable to appliction
> design as to web design? Isn't it all really software?
> 
The difference is not necessarily web/not web, but information/interaction, particularly 
when the information set is relatively heterogeneous (not a neat set of books, products 
etc).

Usability testing of informational sites is a very different thing to testing sites or 
products that are primarily interactive. I teach usability testing workshops, and this 
where I most often say 'it depends' and then launch into an explanation of what is 
different about the two different approaches.

Donna
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