wisdom of crowds Archives - Trymata https://www1.trymata.com/blog/tag/wisdom-of-crowds/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 21:26:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://trymata.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-Trymata-blog-logo-1000x1000-px-32x32.png wisdom of crowds Archives - Trymata https://www1.trymata.com/blog/tag/wisdom-of-crowds/ 32 32 226506926 Crowdsourced usability in the wild: Testing UX Crowd with Serengetee https://trymata.com/blog/2015/07/01/crowdsourced-usability-case-study-with-serengetee/ https://trymata.com/blog/2015/07/01/crowdsourced-usability-case-study-with-serengetee/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2015 15:55:40 +0000 http://blog.trymyui.com/?p=949 Usability testing is important, but it can be hard to make time for poring over hours of video data. Can crowdsourcing usability analysis solve this dilemma? This is the question we set out to answer when we built UX Crowd, a voting-based platform for letting the users themselves identify the most critical issues of a website.

We ran a test with 30 users to see if the crowd’s analysis of an apparel website called Serengetee matched up with the site’s real usability issues.

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]]> https://trymata.com/blog/2015/07/01/crowdsourced-usability-case-study-with-serengetee/feed/ 0 949 Crowds and mobs: How wise is the crowd, really? https://trymata.com/blog/2014/11/21/crowds-and-mobs-how-wise-is-the-crowd-really/ https://trymata.com/blog/2014/11/21/crowds-and-mobs-how-wise-is-the-crowd-really/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:37:23 +0000 http://www.trymyui.com/user-testing-blog/?p=524 The “wisdom of crowds” is the idea that the collective judgment or knowledge of a mass of people tends to converge on extreme accuracy when aggregated. But is that really true – do crowds really make good decisions?

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]]> https://trymata.com/blog/2014/11/21/crowds-and-mobs-how-wise-is-the-crowd-really/feed/ 0 524 Experts or the Crowd: Who has the UX advice you need? https://trymata.com/blog/2014/10/16/experts-or-the-crowd-who-has-the-ux-advice-you-need/ https://trymata.com/blog/2014/10/16/experts-or-the-crowd-who-has-the-ux-advice-you-need/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:29:35 +0000 http://www.trymyui.com/user-testing-blog/?p=355 In 2004, James Surowiecki gave a name to the truth and accuracy of the aggregated many: “the wisdom of crowds.” It’s the idea, basically, that the collected knowledge of a large number of people tends to be remarkably correct. So when it comes to UX, who can tell you more – the experts, or the crowd? The answer may not be as clear-cut as you think.

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