This lesson is a five episode training on rapid usability testing. The lesson is intended to be delivered via Zoom and the exercises reflect this, though you can modify the materials for an in person workshop or other delivery format.
This lesson should teach you to:
- Identify scenarios and tasks appropriate for rapid usability testing
- Recruit for a user study and track participants’ data
- Conduct and analyze results from a rapid usability assessment
There are no prerequisites for this tutorial.
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We would love your feedback, fixes, ideas, revisions, figures, etc! See CONTRIBUTING.md for how.
This lesson uses The Carpentries Workbench. If you want to make a change to the template for this lesson, do that in the Sandpaper repo.
Thanks go to current and past contributors:
- Kate Arneson (content development, feedback)
- Erin Becker (consulting on format and approach)
- Hannah Cohoon (content development, presentation)
- Rajshree Deshmukh (feedback, presentation)
- Eriol Fox (content development, feedback)
- Mary Goldman (content development, feedback, presentation)
- Toby Hodges (consulting on format and approach)
- Anh Le (content development, feedback)
- Cody O’Donnell (feedback)
- Drew Paine (feedback)
- Lavanya Ramakrishnan (feedback)
- Maryam Vareth (feedback)
Thanks also go to the following organizations that have supported this effort:
- US-RSE user experience working group
- The Carpentries
- Superbloom
- STRUDEL project, current maintainers for this lesson
This work was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Liz Vu and Joshua Greenberg program managers, under Grant #G-2024-22557.
This lesson is shared under the CC BY 4.0 license. You can re-use and re-mix it. Please cite:
Cohoon, J., Goldman, M., Arneson, K., Deshmukh, R., Fox, E., & Le, A. (2025, June 24). Lesson on Rapid Usability Testing. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16782384
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