Good for measuring how widespread something is, and poor for discovering what that something is.
RES·004Research method · Quantitative
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quantitative
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Testing whether people can find things in a structure, with no visual design to confound the result.
RES·006Research method · Information architecture
Measuring where people click first, which predicts task success better than almost any other single measure.
RES·007Research method · Evaluative
Comparing variants with real traffic, which tells you what happened without telling you why.
RES·009Research method · Quantitative
Measuring what people do at scale, which tells you where problems are and never why they exist.
RES·010Research method · Quantitative
Measuring where people look, which is expensive, frequently over-interpreted, and occasionally irreplaceable.
RES·017Research method · Evaluative
Unmoderated testing on prototypes and live sites, with quantitative task metrics.
TOOL·018Tool · testing