• RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I wonder why user tests aren’t even mentioned once in the article. If you design an interface you have to test it with your audience

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      5 months ago

      It’s not the point of this article. NN group talks a lot about user testing in other articles, IIRC.

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        5 months ago

        Why not? If the starting point of the article is that we can’t design interfaces based on our elitist 5 percenter knowledge then the remedy for that would be…?

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            5 months ago

            Because you said that was not the point of the article and I asked you to clarify why you think it wasn’t. But never mind. This is going nowhere.

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              5 months ago

              Bad phrasing. I read your previous comment as demanding an explanation from me for why the author wrote an article about simple design rather than about user testing.

              Honestly, I don’t think the article would have been well-served by detouring into user testing. It’s long enough as it is, and again – NN group has written a LOT on the topic.

              I’m not really sure why you brought it up in the first place. It seems like ‘beating a dead horse’ territory.