Testing web sites: Five users is nowhere near enough

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 285-286

  Spool, Jared ^a   Schroeder, Will ^a  

^a User Interface Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Number of users; Usability engineering; Usability testing; Web usabili

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY STANDARDS; NIELSEN; NUMBER OF USERS; PRODUCTION WEB; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTING; WEB USABILI;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84869400917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/634067.634236     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

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3. Nielsen, Jakob Why You Only Need To Test With Five Users, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, March 19, 2000, http://www.useit.eom/alertbox/20000319.hrml.