Eating Your Usability Vegetables

Jared Spool discusses Seven Common Usability Testing Mistakes today. Good stuff—but don't expect anything earthshaking.

That's because—if you've done any reading on usability testing at all—you're already aware of what Jared says. I'm not dissing him; it's a great article. If I'm dissing anyone (and I'm including myself), it's those of us who commit those errors in our usability testing when, deep down inside, we know better.

In that way, Jared is like Mom reminding us to eat our vegetables or brush our teeth after every meal. We always knew she was right.