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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: April 30, 2003 A Proposal for Evaluating Usability Testing Methods: The Practical Review System (PRS) (WebWord) -- "The purpose of this article is to explain the Practical Review System (PRS). The PRS is an outline of 28 characteristics that can be used to understand any usability method, thereby allowing any individual to decide between methods. This solves many of the problems associated with understanding and explaining usability methods."
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Like it John. I am interested! Also agree about translating what usability is to people who think its just about common sense. In a recent project put many examples about devices that have been real flops due to no regard to customer needs and putting it into language people can understand. UCD for UCD and something Whitney Quesenbery speaks about at http://www.wqusability.com/articles/ucd-on-ucd.html Posted by: daniel szuc on May 1, 2003 10:35 AM
I'm not a usability specialist but I am very interested in the subject of usability both as a user and as an engineer/designer, and I would be willing to help in whatever way I could. I've always wanted to be involved in testing as a user for something like a website, but I have never found out how to do that. By the way, I know of personal web page that does something very similar to what you're talking about, but using only the methods described in Nielsen's "Usability Engineering". If you want to know about it, let me know. If you don't, I'll stay mum. Posted by: Ralph on May 1, 2003 02:58 PM
Good stuff, but what you're proposing is not a means to evaluate methods, but to catalogue them. With that in mind, I suggest prioritizing the attributes that do not require evaluation of the method. Probably the most important is #22, Goals of Testing. Making this alone explicit, specific, and meaningful will be extremely helpful. Posted by: Ron Zeno on May 3, 2003 01:57 PM
Hi Ron, this may interest you and John has also posted this on webword - http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article1058.asp Be interested in your perspective. Posted by: daniel szuc on May 3, 2003 10:20 PM
Ron wrote: "Good stuff, but what you're proposing is not a means to evaluate methods, but to catalogue them." I don't fully agree. I would argue that the PRS will generate a catalog, as you suggest. However, I would then argue that since the methods are catalogued using the same characteristics, we can easily evaluate them or decide between them. Posted by: John S. Rhodes on May 4, 2003 01:56 PM
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