Discuss: Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe

by Ruth Stalker-Firth

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Thanks for very interesting article. Can I translate your article into polish and publish it at my weblog? I will back here and check your answer. Keep up the good work. Greetings

posted at 09:03 pm on April 8, 2007 by Tomek Gorski

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Dirk, thanks for your long comment. I really feel the same regarding the need of scientific research when doing usability testing. SO let us know once your blog is up.

posted at 05:27 pm on April 10, 2007 by Handy Andy

Was there anything specific to webdesign in this article? Not that anything was wrong, all the points are important. They are important for webdesigners and everyone else. But I’m used to more in-depth articles on ALA than this one. Greetings

posted at 10:54 pm on May 8, 2007 by Tomasz Gorski

34 Great work Ruth!

Thanks for very interesting article. I really enjoyed reading all of your articles. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. Keep up the good work. Greetings

posted at 06:15 pm on May 10, 2007 by Jessica Prescott

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Sorry I’m late:

“Would you use this site/service/product/software?�? you say.

Then, the entire test’s already flawed. Don’t you know “Don’t listen to users?” I’m sorry (probably not), but one might test with really few users, but not with the wrong methodology. And I may say that I suspected exactly that when reading this article …

posted at 10:21 pm on June 9, 2007 by Jens Meiert

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Jens Meiert wrote:

Then, the entire test’s already flawed. Don’t you know “Don’t listen to users?�? I’m sorry (probably not), but one might test with really few users, but not with the wrong methodology.

Did you actually read the article? Ruth used the bit you quoted as an example of how focus-group style testing methodologies don’t work. You’re both saying the same thing.