Comments on: Chalkmark: a simple app for testing page mock-ups on real users https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/ User Experience Design, Research & Good Old Fashioned Usability Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:33:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sam https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/#comment-87440 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:48:32 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/#comment-87440 Hi Harry,

Thanks for the write up about Chalkmark. Your observations of its limitations are very astute! We definitely have all of those constraints under current consideration. In fact, we hope to be implementing some of those new features very soon.

As for recruitment, we currently envisage most users will be doing adhoc testing by using friends, co-workers, family etc for some informal testing. But for representative end users, yes, we definitely Ethnio. We’ve been talking to them about how we can perhaps work more closely together to make that recruitment process more invisible.

Any feedback at all, please, love to hear it both good and bad.

Cheers from a sunny Wellington morning.
Sam

Optimal Workshop

]]> By: Harry Brignull https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/#comment-87129 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:59:38 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/#comment-87129 Hi Phil,

the thought had occurred to me. There’s no reason why you can’t add a questionnaire to the task and gather some profiling information.

It would definitely be fun, quick and fairly cheap – but I would worry about the match between the turkers and your real user-base.

]]> By: Phil https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/#comment-87128 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:52:09 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/#comment-87128 Sorry, I meant to test say 100 users albeit unsegmented with no profiling…? Is more the merrier?

]]> By: Phil https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/#comment-87127 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:50:42 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2008/12/20/chalkmark-a-simple-app-for-testing-page-mock-ups-on-real-users/#comment-87127 Hi Harry,

Just read your post about ChalkMark and I think it looks pretty cool. Wondered what you thought about using Amazon Mechanical Turk to recruit a some testers?

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