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<title>Focus Group Usability Testing</title>
<shortdesc>In today’s financial climate, organisations are trying to cut costs. This has led to lots of new and innovative cost-cutting usability techniques springing up. Some of them are ingenious, but not every cost saving measure is a good idea. One technique that is becoming popular with some is focus group usability testing. I recommend that you avoid this technique completely. I’ll try to explain why.</shortdesc>
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<p>In today’s financial climate, organisations are trying to cut costs. This has led to lots of new and innovative cost-cutting usability techniques springing up. Some of them are ingenious, but not every cost saving measure is a good idea. One technique that is becoming popular with some is focus group usability testing. I recommend that you avoid this technique completely. I’ll try to explain why.</p>
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<li><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Usability/Testing/Focus-Groups">All works in 'Articles &gt; Usability &gt; Testing &gt; Focus-Groups'</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/Focus-Groups">'Focus Groups'</a></li>
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 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Usability/Testing/Focus-Groups" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Articles &gt; Usability &gt; Testing &gt; Focus-Groups'</linktext></link>
 <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/Focus-Groups" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All works in 'Focus Groups'</linktext></link>
 <link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/publisher/Good_Usability" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All 6 works published by Good Usability</linktext></link>

<link type="reference" href="http://tc.eserver.org/authors/Hamill,_David" role="parent" scope="local"><linktext>All six works by Hamill, David</linktext></link>
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