Karl A L Smith

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Contextual usability

Cognition Clash in the IoT SXSW16

Thank you to everyone who attended our (Karl Smith and Thom Heslop) talk at SXSW16, it’s the start of a long road into a really complex and contextual problem. But being silent in the crowd as the King walks by…

#Context matters in #Usability

While any kind of user testing is better than none, usability testing out of context is like testing a car on water, it gives some basic information and not a lot more. If performance and use are important at all, then testing should take place in an environment standard to the expected users.