{"id":7,"date":"2011-06-09T14:19:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T21:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/userresearch\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-07-20T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:27:15","slug":"are-usability-labs-an-artifact-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2011\/06\/are-usability-labs-an-artifact-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Usability Labs an Artifact of the Past?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13\" title=\"usabilitylab\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/userresearch\/files\/2011\/07\/usabilitylab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>As we\u2019re growing our qualitative user research team here, at Mozilla, people have asked if we\u2019re going to build a usability lab and the answer is no.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because you get the best results from interviews and usability tests when you\u2019re in the user\u2019s natural environment, using their own devices with their own data.\u00a0 Sometimes we\u2019re in a park testing on someone\u2019s phone or sometimes we\u2019re at a mall.\u00a0 Other times we\u2019re in people\u2019s homes sitting on the couch with them as they use their tablets and their laptops.\u00a0 And there are lots of ways to conduct high quality remote usability testing too.\u00a0 So for all the reasons above, you won\u2019t see a usability lab at Mozilla any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we\u2019re growing our qualitative user research team here, at Mozilla, people have asked if we\u2019re going to build a usability lab and the answer is no.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because you &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2011\/06\/are-usability-labs-an-artifact-of-the-past\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9575,9578],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}