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The experts say that you we should do usability testing early and often. Tree testing is no different – indeed, it was created to let you us test very early (before you we even have a website coded) and very often (because it’s both cheap and easy to run a tree test).
In general, you we can start testing as soon as you we have a structure to test – either a text dump of your our existing site’s IA, or the new IA ideas you’ve we’ve been playing with. You’ll We’ll also need time to create “find it” tasks that exercise your our structure(s), and time for the overhead of setting up the tree tests.
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Note that most of the effort comes in preparing the first test. That’s because subsequent iterations largely reuse what you we did in the first round – the only thing that needs more work is the tree structure itself.
For more on timelines, see Documenting your our plan in Chapter 4.
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