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Recruiting participants

Recruiting participants

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Recruiting participants

You'll need to find people who are representative users of your site or product. If you're creating the information architecture for your company's intranet or an internal tool, then you must find people from the organization who would be likely users. If you're creating a public facing website, you need to find people who would be your site's customers or visitors. I covered the steps you'll need to cover to recruit people in a lot of detail in my course on usability testing. I suggest you watch the relevant chapters of that course before you start your recruiting effort. At a minimum you'll need to find sufficient people. Check that they meet your criteria. Schedule times to meet with them, either at your place of work or at their location, and convince them to turn up by paying them a suitable gratuity for their time. 15 participants should give you enough data to have sufficient confidence in the results. Obviously, if you have different types of users, you'll want to have this…

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