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#5. Participants
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Define the target group of your project and get representative users to use the software. We want to test how usable the software is for normal people. As Benson, Müller-Prove & Mzourek (2004) advise: users on mailing lists [and IRC] are not typical users but rather experienced ones.
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It is enough to test with 3–5 users to find out most usability issues (Nielsen, 2000):
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Nielsen also notes: The most striking truth of the curve is that zero users give zero insights. So go get some participants and start testing!
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