This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page as a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.
Usability testing is a technique used in user-centered interaction design to evaluate a product by testing it on users.
Someone with usability testing skills:
- knows how to observe people using the software to discover errors and areas of improvement
- knows how to measure efficiency, accuracy, recall and emotional response of the users
- knows usability testing methods, such as hallway testing, remote usability testing, expert review, interviewing techniques
- knows how to manage a usability study (designing it, creating the research context, selecting the representative users to test, measuring the tested interactions, analysing the data and interpreting the whole research)
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http://drupal.org/node/128430
http://drupal.org/node/1284300 and its sub pages has solid material on how to run a usability test