In 1963 Yale Psychologist Stanley Milgram paid volunteers $4 to “teach” another volunteer, called the “learner” new vocabulary words. If the learner got the words wrong, he or she received an electric shock! Or, so the teacher/volunteer was led to believe. In fact, no shock was given, instead a person working with Milgram pretended, with
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Netflix has been in the news a lot lately. Unfortunately for the wrong reasons. The popular home DVD and streaming movie services has come under a bit of a customer revolt after increasing pricing and changing services. While Netflix is largely a US based service and this controversy may only be temporary it does offers
Whether you’re conducting an early stage test of a prototype or late validation, these five tips can make any usability test more credible. The tips both temper skepticism about small samples and help you avoid overstating your findings. Count the number of users that experience each problem. Early testing is all about finding and fixing
