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Usability testing with kids

Usability testing with kids

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Usability testing with kids

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- [Host] If you ever have to run usability sessions with children, here's my biggest tip for you. Don't use regular office chairs that swivel and roll. The chair will be way more entertaining than anything else in your session, so you'll have lost the kid's attention right from the start. I'm only half joking about that tip. I've run usability sessions with children who were distracted, hungry, tired, and full of sugar. None of these sessions turned out well, but now you can learn from my mistakes. Let's start with the recruiting process. Remember that kids move through developmental stages very quickly. Six-year-olds behave differently to 10-year-olds. If your product targets primary school children, you shouldn't just average out their ages and recruit eight-year-olds. And in fact, it's normally better to recruit based on academic grade, rather than on just age, because this tends to be a better measure of…

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