I thought that the article on usability testing by Joshua Kaufman was helpful in some ways, but that most of his advice exceeded the amount of careful planning that I will need to do for this project.
For the most part, I thought that his suggestions under the header 'What are you going to test?' were the most helpful. "The wording of the scenario...should have a specific end goal," "the scenario should be typical of the activities that an average user will do on a site," and "the scenario should explain the task the same way that users would." All of these suggestions are relvant to the usability testing that I will be doing for my final project website.
Also, the idea of choosing testers who are similar to your website's anticipated audience is a key thing to keep in mind.
Other than that, I felt that a lot of the article provided a bit more information than necessary for my purposes.
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Yes, some of that is ahead of the game here, but I am glad you were able to extract portions that will benefit you. These tests will give you a user group made up of fellow web authors, which is a help. Possibly a cheat since they have a bit of background knowledge though still very helpful and useful.
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