{"id":173,"date":"2011-07-15T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=173"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:21:24","slug":"are-five-users-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Are five users enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That <strong>5 users is enough<\/strong>, is an often <strong>misused and misinterpreted conclusion<\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/20000319.html\">Jacob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox<\/a> (dated 19. 3. 2000) &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/20000319.html\">Why you only need to test 5 users?<\/a>&quot;. <strong>In some circumstances this is the case, but in many not<\/strong>! <strong>Nielsen<\/strong> specifically <strong>talks about cost\/benefit of <\/strong>software <strong>usability study with 5 participants in<\/strong> each of three <strong>stages of iterative<\/strong> software <strong>development process<\/strong>. And nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <strong>an blog about how many users is enough<\/strong>, <strong>based on <\/strong>what kind of <strong>study<\/strong> <strong>and<\/strong> what kind of <strong>questions<\/strong> do we have! Worth reading!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Alan Dix, <strong><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alandix.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/04\/are-five-users-enough\/\">Are five users enough?<\/a><\/strong>, June 4, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That 5 users is enough, is an often misused and misinterpreted conclusion from Jacob Nielsen&#8217;s Alertbox (dated 19. 3. 2000) &quot;Why you only need to test 5 users?&quot;. In some circumstances this is the case, but in many not! Nielsen specifically talks about cost\/benefit of software usability study with 5 participants in each of three&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-pim-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}