[thelist] How long is a usability piece of string?

Brown, Robert Robert.Brown at lot21.com
Tue Jan 23 13:17:35 CST 2001


At the NNgroup world tour, a survey was passed around to the audience,
asking how much time was spent on usability on projects.

it was roughly around 17% of the total project timeline

dear Mr. Nielsen said that in Europe when they conducted the same survey
that the total time was 20% of the project timeline

I would say you need at least two people focused on usability (You always
need at least one person challenging your ideas)

and you need to test the major components of the website with users, but
don't turn it into a lengthy two three week period to test. Get your data
quickly you can spend precious time on iteration.

Sorry I cant help with actual numbers..


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Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Here's question for you:

How many person/days would you expect a credible usability
workstream to take for a reasonably large site (would typically
include both product and non-product info, and shopping)?

Cheers
Martin

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