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Love it - How about this as an alternative: The user is stuck in a very (corporate/government/sluggish) environment. I will review your site/app from a major b
by sharkweek 12y ago
Love it -
How about this as an alternative: The user is stuck in a very (corporate/government/sluggish) environment. I will review your site/app from a major bank's / federal government's offices and report back!
Or maybe this: The user is a 65 year old dad whose son doesn't come around often enough to ensure his father hasn't installed countless malware that he blames "internet" on. I will go to my dad's house and use his computer to browse your site/app and report back!
This list really should get longer, HN, I turn to you.
- joslin01 12y agoThe user is not there - I will review your website as if I had never seen it before and don't intend to
- joshrotenberg 12y agoSimilar to "The User is Drunk ... with friends, at a bar, not at home on the couch alone on the internet."
- jabo 12y agoHow about, user is using a screen reader or some other accessibility aid.
- bashinator 12y agoCan you make it more hilarious?
- johnlbevan2 12y agoThe user is a woman: standard UX testing, only you're forced to confront your own preconceptions for having assumed it would be otherwise.
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- cbd1984 12y ago> The user is a woman Nothing changes. Like "The user is trans" or "The user is Bulgarian" or "The user listens to Kinky Friedman" or "The user drinks from a hose". > your own preconceptions Speak for yourself.
- dfullarton 12y agoI think that was his point?
- amagumori 12y agodid you even read the post you replied to?
- kordless 12y agoDid you understand his? Regarding "nothing changes" he's spot on adding other groups that are entitled to fair and equal consideration. He's expanding the discussion, which is the point of this place (or is suppose to be). Regarding 'speak for yourself', I have to agree with him. When someone uses 'you' or 'your' in a sentence indicating someone specific should 'confront your own preconceptions' what they are really doing is making a blanket blaming statement across a group of people on whether or not they have preconceptions. That's a conversational no-no because someone doesn't have the right to speak for me on my behalf. It's the trust, man. It's the trust.
- famblycat 12y agoMeh, I just read it as an anti-joke. I think you guys are getting worked up over nothing.
- arfliw 12y agoThe user in a 3rd World country and speaks (reads) very limited English. With 3rd World internet and an $80 computer.
- abusque 12y agoThere was a poster a few weeks back on here offering to test your web app on all the major ISPs/carriers in Dar es Salaam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9133792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9133792
- prawn 12y agoProduct/service reviews by not-so-tech-oriented parents or retirees could be quite entertaining.
- j2kun 12y agoYou can't complain when they send you a .docx file.
- sthreet 12y agoMy school counselor send scholarships in those.
- sharkweek 12y agoFew years ago asked my mom to send me a few photos from the family christmas - they showed up in my email inserted into a word doc.
- prawn 12y agoThis is how some of my clients send me screenshots. :(
- TeMPOraL 12y agoThis calls for a Clippy comeback. "I see you're trying to put your wedding photos into a document. Do you want me to show you how to use your e-mail client?".
- bshimmin 12y agoI have one pair of clients who send me wireframes produced in Excel, sometimes with screenshots of LinkedIn (which serves as the inspiration for most of their ideas) pasted in. I find it quite amusing and genuinely like the clients as people, if not really as clients, so I don't have the heart to tell them how silly it is. (I did once try and get them to use Balsamiq, but it didn't end well.)
- joshrotenberg 12y agoThe user has cats: what your site looks like just on the corners of the screen (or maybe even one or two corners) while random keys are being pressed by paws.
- wickawic 12y agoThe classic "How does your site perform if your cat is standing on the F11 key" test
- joshrotenberg 12y agoWith the standard, classic result: "poorly".
- tempestn 12y agoLately my 3 year old's favourite passtime is to come sit on my lap while I'm trying to work (or surfing HN or whatever) and ask, "Can I press this key?" (Shift? "Uh, ya, sure.") "Can I press this key?" (Ctrl? "Sure.") Some of them make you think though. (F2? What will that do in this context?) It's not among my most productive times, but it's fun. :)
- joshschreuder 12y agoYour cat is talking at 3 years old? Very advanced!
- jakobegger 12y agoI told my 2 and a half year old that the "S" key is the snake key, so now he always asks "can i press snake?". He's also found a second snake (the 5 key).
- bobbykjack 12y agoWhen he finds the '@', he's gonna be delighted!
- semi-extrinsic 12y ago
- bbcbasic 12y agoUser found you on Google. He intends to visit another 100 sites like yours to find what he wants, and therefore will only spend 3 to 10 seconds on your site.
- hashberry 12y agoThe user is drunk and high. I want cannabis-inspired feedback.
- Uberphallus 12y agoThe user is tripping balls on LSD. Will report back on how scary it was, how unexpectedly it worked, how tedious and unappealing the actions to do were, and how the colours sounded like.
- chippy 12y agoThe user is a bored developer working in a dead end job, they will either - look at it for 1 second and say "meh", close it and go back to reddit or if they like the colours say "cool" click around a bit for 5 seconds, close it and go back to reddit.
- thenomad 12y agoNah, that one already exists: http://fivesecondtest.com/ http://fivesecondtest.com/ ( I may be making assumptions about the user base, but I think "bored developer" is a reasonably safe bet...)
- simi_ 12y agoMy first thought was "this already exists, it's called HN/reddit/producthunt/etc" then I realised most of the times I upvote items just because they have a lot of upvotes/comments. Side project idea: HN/PH where the ratings are hidden. This way you still get the curation bit, but people are free to make up their own minds about your website.
- mrec 12y agoReddit already supports this for upvotes; some subs hide the upvote/downvote numbers to prevent exactly this kind of thoughtless pile-on. I wish more did. I think it's usually "for the first <duration> after posting", but I presume it could be made permanent.
- FLUX-YOU 12y agoThere is no user.
- sleepyhead 12y agoThe user reviews your site and writes HN-like comments about it.
- djscram 12y agoThe user skipped his ADHD meds today.