Tag: data collection

  • Translating research questions to data

    There’s an art to asking a question and then coming up with a way to answer it. I find myself asking, What do you want to find out? The next question is How do we know what the answer is? Maybe the easiest thing is to take you through an example. Forming the right question…

  • Data collecting: Tips and tricks for taking notes

    A common mistake people make when they’re new to conducting usability tests is taking verbatim notes. Note taking for summative tests can be pretty straightforward. For those you should have benchmark data that you’re comparing against or at least clear success criteria. In that case, data collecting could (and probably should) be done mostly by the…