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These are some helpful conclusions, but I'm not sure how much they can be trusted. The article says they tested with eight participants, each participant fillin
by roryokane 17y ago
These are some helpful conclusions, but I'm not sure how much they can be trusted. The article says they tested with eight participants, each participant filling in two of the four forms. That's a pretty small amount of data to make recommendations on.
- Barnabas 17y agoFrom 2000 (gasp), here's an article from Jacob Nielsen on why you only need to test with 5 users: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html More recently, here's a related article on Multiple-user Simultaneous Testing, when and why you'd test with more people and how to actually do that: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/multiple-user-testing.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/multiple-user-testing.html
- fun2have 17y agoSome in Academia have debunked that testing with 5 is enough... See http://uxexchange.com/questions/328/ideal-number-of-candidates-for-user-testing/380#380 http://uxexchange.com/questions/328/ideal-number-of-candidat...