[Sigia-l] User testing

[Katrien Janin]

I am part of a London based development department and we are scheduled 
to redesign an online application for one of our corporate clients.

We would like to conduct user tests on the existing site to find out 
more and give our design and development team access to users (and 
their actions).
In the past we've mostly tested while producing our products with 
paper-prototypes on fellow employees whom weren't involved in the 
project.

However, this time, we really would like to use *innocent * people, 
whom share our users background. But where do we find these poor souls 
as we have no immediate access to our users locale data. Are there any 
agencies we can go to and ask for users/people with a certain profile, 
or how do we create a pool of people? How much is custom to offer to 
pay? Do you pay per session? Per hour? ... ?

All advice more than welcome,

.trientje