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Re:If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it by zbowling on Thursday December 27, 2012 @06:57PM (#4975747)
Nothing wrong with being bold and trying new ideas but obvious is only really qualifiable via user testing. It's simple thing to do to see if your product is actually usable.

My method is to get 3 random craigslist people and pay them $50 bucks to play with the app for an hour. Record them struggling and have them talk through their thoughts and how they use your app. You will learn more from that experience than anything else.

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Re:If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it by evalapply on Friday December 28, 2012 @05:59AM (#4977258)
Rather than going through Craigslist, at my last startup we used http://www.usertesting.com/ - $39 bucks and the user testing video is all yours. Pretty decent.
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