Appendix A. Participant Recruiting Survey

Nielsen Norman group conducted a worldwide email survey to gather specific information about the usability community’s collective recruiting experience. We received 201 responses, indicating great interest in the recruiting aspect of usability studies. We thank those who participated and provided valuable information.

About the Survey

Background

We created a plain-text survey that we could send in the body of an email message, which people could fill in as a reply to the email. Jakob Nielsen posted a notice about the survey on the Useit.com website and sent it to the Alertbox mailing list, inviting people who conduct user studies to request a copy of the survey: We also posted a similar notice on a widely ...

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