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[...] [from steve_portigal] The $5 Guerrilla User Test [Bumblebee Labs Blog] – [While we're obviously big advocates of getting input about designs from people as frequently as possible and at various levels of fidelity, it's a bit dissonant when informal methods get distilled (so to speak) into formal-seeming methods without any of the purposefulness and planfulness of established methods. Challenging to my assumptions and thus helpfully provocative] Drunk people are a pretty accurate mimic of distracted, indifferent people. This insight has lead to a wonderful technique I’ve been refining over the years that I call “The $5 Guerrilla User Test”. Here’s the 5 second version: 1. Bring a laptop to a bar, 2. Offer to buy someone a beer in exchange for participating in a user study, 3. Watch your application crash & burn as people do all sorts of ridiculous ass shit they would never do in a lab but constantly do in real life, 4. Go back, apply the lessons you have learnt, repeat until you have an app that is 100% drunk person proof Share this post [...]
so far I find veetle to be somewhat addicting, the one thing that would be a whole lot better would be that if you're showing stuff on veetle, you should post a schedule to show people out there what's coming up. IMHO
[...] “Anything you think is either unoriginal, wrong or both” [...]
A kind of web design to be like that is extremely not good at all. I guess there's a big percent of bounce rate in that site.
I see this in reverse – it gives me a nice cover for being nerdy and paranoid about privacy. I can claim that I'm not using it in order to maintain some sort of mystery about my social activities – that I'm not using it to provide myself with the social cover you mention at the beginning. That seems a much more accessible as an explanation than trying to argue privacy policy with people who think I'm just being quaint.
My friends already know I don't go out that often – maybe this works for people who are faking it and telegraphing that fact, but not if you've not already been bothering to fake it.
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