HOWTO: Design a task list for an API usability study- April 19, 2005 In my previous post I talked about setting up an API usability study. In this post, I'll talk about how I design the tasks that participants work on in a study. After getting some level of familiarity with the API, I tend to start designing a task list by asking the API team what they want to learn. Sometimes teams will have specific research questions they would like answers to, such as 'Will users be more successful with the FileObject class for doing file IO than they would be with the...http://blogs.msdn.com/stevencl/archive/2005/04/19/409849.aspx |