What’s the Technique?
In the chapter about paper prototypes (Chapter 11, Paper Prototype Testing), you got a first taste of usability testing. Now, we want to do the same kinds of tests with real running code. In many ways, testing code is actually easier than testing paper prototypes, because you don’t need to simulate a computer. Testing running applications also allows you much more freedom in how to perform a usability test. This chapter reviews some ideas covered previously, while also introducing a number of new concepts that are not applicable to paper prototypes.
This chapter focuses on explaining usability testing and on preparing for such a test. The next two chapters show how to run usability tests.
Some of the concepts introduced ...
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