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February 11, 2010: Remote Research is now on sale!

Yes, it's finally here! You can now pick up a copy of Nate and Tony's Remote Research in a variety of flavors: one package (US$36) includes a lovely four color paperback and a screen-optimized DRM-free PDF; the other (US$22) is...

February 8, 2010: User Research Friday 2010

User Research Friday 2010 is coming February 19! URF is a casual half-day conference brought to you by the gentle folks at Bolt | Peters. We bring user research experts together for advanced discussion, beverages, relaxed learning, and heavy socializing....

December 10, 2009: Time-Aware Research (0 comments)

The soul of remote research is that it lets you conduct what we call Time-Aware Research. By now UX researchers are familiar with the importance of understanding the usage context of an interface--the physical environment where people are normally using...

November 17, 2009: Screening Out Liars From Your Usability Study (0 comments)

A new article on 90 Percent of Everything discusses a few ways to screen out potential "fake users" who lie about their qualifications to participate in your study: In fact, a lot of liars can be screened out by writing...

October 28, 2009: Remote Testing Tools Round-up by Liz Bacon (0 comments)

Liz Bacon of Devise maintains a great list of remote usability testing tools on Google Docs; check em out! (We're working on something like this in the near future as well; for now, check out the Tools page on our...

August 4, 2009: Sample Recruiting Forms (0 comments)

There are lots of ways to user your website to recruit participants for remote research study. (If you're already confused, see this post for an introduction to live recruiting.) First and foremost, there's our web app Ethnio, which our company...

January 26, 2009: Read Chapter One of Remote Research! (14 comments)

Hello, readers! We've decided to post, right here on this blog, a working draft of the first chapter of our book (minus pictures and diagrams), which is about when and why you should do remote research, and when lab or in-person research is more appropriate. We'd love for you to read it, search through it for hidden messages, tweet about it, tattoo it across your back in its entirety, et cetera. Since it's still in draft form, we encourage you to send us your feedback--we expect the final draft to be different, and probably shorter. Hope you enjoy! - Tony

November 17, 2008: Remote Research: It's On (9 comments)

Welcome, folks! We're glad to announce our new book, tentatively titled "Remote Research", which, you might be shocked to hear, is about remote user research. Usually, when we try to explain what remote research is, most people (and even professional...