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Their tasks: 1. Click on the things that draw your attention the most. 2. Click on the elements you like on this page. 3. Mark the things that you think we s
by pkamb 15y ago
Their tasks:
1. Click on the things that draw your attention the most.
2. Click on the elements you like on this page.
3. Mark the things that you think we should improve.
These are the wrong tasks to be asking users to complete. A real user task on TechCrunch would be "Find and read an article that seems interesting to you" or "Find and read the 3 most recent articles about FourSquare" and so on.
This is basically a focus group for "do you like this redesign", not a task-based usability test.
- jvandenbroeck 15y agoIdd, I was thinking the same, they want to make it look like they do a really "scientific" test -- but I don't think you can conclude anything with these tasks.
- hluska 15y ago+1 - I can't for the life of me figure out what this test hopes to accomplish (other than generate some link bait/traffic from Hacker News). Add in the fact that most of the people who took it are not regular TechCrunch readers and any statistical relevance this test had goes right out the window.