Conducting DIY User Reseach

26 November 2007, 19:19, by Jon

Leisa Reichelt has posted up an interesting presentation on DIY guerrilla User Research which is well worth a look. I have embedded her slideshow below.

She points out that no matter how small the budget, even a small amount of User Research can pay off in a big way. She goes through some of the techniques used by Interaction Designers when conducting research and some invaluable tips on conducting and writing interviews, it is well worth a look:

View Leisa’s Presentation on slide share.


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Jon started his career hacking code on his Sinclair Spectrum before moving on to more sophisticated machines ( ...such as a Commodore 64 ). He graduated from the University of Kent in 2000 with a degree in Computer Science and since then has worked in finance and education before co-founding Go Tripod. He is passionate about usability and design and his favourite development technologies are Ruby, and Objective-C/Cocoa. When he is not sat at his desk he is standing on his head doing yoga, refining his taste for food or on an adventure exploring the great outdoors.

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