Plan a five-person usability test
Plans a five-person usability test with tasks, a script, a note sheet and consent, for a site or app you are building.
Task:
Plan a usability test with 5 participants for my [website or app], including the tasks and the session script.
Context:
The product is [product description] for [target users]. I want to learn whether people can [key goal] without help. I can run sessions [in person or remote], each at most [minutes] minutes, within [timeframe].
Rules:
- Write 4 tasks as realistic scenarios in the user's words, without naming buttons or menu labels.
- Add a short script with a welcome, a note that we test the product and not the person, a request to think aloud, and a closing question.
- Include a note sheet with columns for task, success or not, time, quotes and problems seen.
- Cover recruiting by describing the people to find and how to ask them, a consent step for recording, and how to keep notes without names.
- Explain how to turn the notes into a ranked list of problems after the fifth session.
- Do not state research findings or numbers as fact. Say where a rule of thumb is only a rule of thumb.
Result:
A plan with the headings recruiting, tasks, script, note sheet and analysis, at most 250 words in total, followed by a one-line checklist for the day before the first session.