Business end-users sought for Notes usability testing

September 6 2005

The lead designer for Lotus Notes "Hannover" (I'm not mentioning their name on the blog, to keep the recruiters away ;), writes:

As part of the Hannover release of the Notes client, we are looking for HUNDREDS of BUSINESS END USERS to participate in usability tests.
Can you please "blog a request" for your readers to send my request below out to their "constituent" business end users?

While technically-savvy people are very important to us, for these usability tests we are VERY SPECIFICALLY looking for business professionals (accountants,  managers,  Administrative Assistants, etc.) who are NOT developers or system administrators.

Point your browser to http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/usability  to read descriptions about the usability studies and choose the Sign Up link to be contacted.

This is a great opportunity -- there are obviously opinionated end-users using Notes in many many organizations.  This would be a great way to get them involved in building a great next version of the product.

Ed Brill Atlanta, GA USA Category:  Lotus  Add/View Comments [6]

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  1. 1  Mika Heinonen siipi.com/mika | 9/6/2005 11:36:02 AM

    I signed up! Looking forward for some remote web based tests.

  1. 2  Rolf Kremer http://www.r-k.net | 9/6/2005 1:19:59 PM

    The lead designer of Notes and a manager of the IBM User Experience Group will be in Paderborn (Germany) on the Powersphere at 22nd September ({ Link } There they will hold a session to get feedback of business users. Maybe another chance to get in contact with these people.

  1. 3  Rock http://www.lotusgeek.com | 9/7/2005 9:53:54 PM

    Mika, you're a geek - didn't you read the instructions posted by Ed? And I quote:

    "While technically-savvy people are very important to us, for these usability tests we are VERY SPECIFICALLY looking for business professionals (accountants, managers, Administrative Assistants, etc.) who are NOT developers or system administrators."

    So why would you sign up? It seems more appropriate to pass this information along to your (assumed less-geeky) clients.

    --Rock

  1. 4  Nathan T. Freeman  | 9/8/2005 8:48:36 AM

    "Mika, you're a geek"

    Rock, I think that's debatable. ;-)

  1. 5  Jorick Astrego http://www.domino-weblog.nl | 9/8/2005 10:23:15 AM

    The descriptions link on the page below doesn't work...

    https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/usentry.nsf/register?openform

  1. 6  Mika Heinonen siipi.com/mika | 9/8/2005 11:59:40 AM

    Rock, yes I think I am a geek too, but I also want to experience ND7 from an end user, manager, and business professional perspective.

    I don't love ND7 because it's Domino, but because it is technically the most advanced web and database system I know of. I can be very critical towards Notes/Domino at times too, as you've probably seen, but as a developer I have been able to replace, workaround and improve all bugs and barriers which I have stood in my way so far, and never really thought seriously about changing to another platform.