- "And all the right junk in all the right places" - Meghan Trainor
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OK, so you’ve prepared your tree, created a good list of tasks, set it all up in your testing tool, and figured out which users you’re going to target.
You’re ready to go, right?
Ah, not quite. There’s something wrong with your study.
It’s likely there’s at least one glitch in your study that you haven’t discovered yet. The problem is that you don’t know what’s wrong. At this point, you can either:
- Launch your study anyway and let your participants find the problem for you (and maybe muck up your data as a result), or
- Take an afternoon to pilot your study, find the glitches, then launch a slightly revised study that gives you higher-quality results.
Luckily, doing a test run of your study is simple, and the problems you’ll find are usually easy to fix.
Trying out your task wording
A pointer to Chapter 7
Previewing a test yourself
Trying it out in almost-real conditions
Running a pilot test
Who should participate, online vs. in person, getting feedback
Checking for technical problems
Dealing with spam blockers, mobile devices, old browsers, and firewalls
Revising the test
Editing vs. duplicating, deleting pilot results