User testing

[Kake L Pugh]

Hello.  Here's an idea which may have been brought to you by too much gin and
too little patience with people asserting things they have no evidence for.

We have open source code; we have open source design; why don't we have open
source user testing?  Jakob Nielsen has umpteen reports of proper scientific
testing of how people use websites and other applications, but they all cost
$$$ - which is perfectly understandable, because he's a business and so needs
to make money.

Is it beyond us as a group to come up with things like a validatable
questionnaire, or a cheaply-built eye-tracking device, or a couple of people
capable of performing interviews and doing content analysis on the results?

Kake