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<title>Better Reports: How to Communicate the Results of Usability Testing</title>
<shortdesc>You&apos;ve spent several days setting up a usability test, recruiting the participants and running it. Then you&apos;ve pored over the data. What next? If you are doing usability testing as part of user-centred design within a business setting, then there are many ways that you can communicate the results. This paper looks at reports and then considers presentation and observation as alternatives to reports.</shortdesc>
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<p>You&apos;ve spent several days setting up a usability test, recruiting the participants and running it. Then you&apos;ve pored over the data. What next? If you are doing usability testing as part of user-centred design within a business setting, then there are many ways that you can communicate the results. This paper looks at reports and then considers presentation and observation as alternatives to reports.</p>
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<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Usability/Testing/Reports">All works in 'Articles &gt; Usability &gt; Testing &gt; Reports'</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles">All works in 'Articles'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Usability">'Usability'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Testing">'Testing'</a>, <a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Reports">'Reports'</a></li>
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 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Articles'</linktext></link>
 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Usability" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Usability'</linktext></link>
 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Testing" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Testing'</linktext></link>
 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Reports" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Reports'</linktext></link>
 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/publisher/STC_Proceedings" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All 2240 works published by STC Proceedings</linktext></link>

<link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/authors/Jarrett,_Caroline" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All 16 works by Jarrett, Caroline</linktext></link>
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