Usability Testing Essentials

6 Preparing for usability testing

In your planning meeting, you began your preparations for testing. You created or assigned due dates to complete the screener and the scenarios. You also determined the feedback mechanisms you will use to gather qualitative and quantitative feedback.

It’s somewhat of an arbitrary distinction to break planning and preparing into two phases and two chapters in this book, but I did it this way because the agenda items covered in Chapter 5 result in decisions that shape your preparations for testing. One of these decisions—the criteria for the screener—has to be done before recruiting can begin.

This chapter is about the other activities you will need to do or assign as you prepare for testing. These activities ...