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MeasuringU
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MeasuringU is the company blog at measuringu.com, writing about design and data. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a source on UX research and usability testing, including the five-user testing article, essential metrics such as task time and user errors, and EULA readership. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
None of those are enough. Unless the spying feature is directly marketed to consumers, e.g. a TV ad that says "Buy a color printer THAT SPIES ON YOU today!", >92% of the population will never learn about it. (That estimate being from the # who don't read license agreements: https://measuringu.com/eula/ ) Generally, anything that less than half of the population knows abut is a secret (e.g., menstruation is still cal…
Comment linking /eula/
on “List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots”Submitted What Is a Strong Correlation? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently created an awesome ux project at github. There, you can find a list of the classic books in UX, interaction design, information architecture and usability [0]. If you wish to add any resource, feel free to comment this issue [1] or to create a new one. UXTools.com just relased the results of the 2018 Design Tools Survey [2]. In november, Jeff Sauro published "the methods ux professionals use" post [3]. Th…
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on “Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?”Submitted 28 Resources for Getting Started in UX as a story · 3 points
HN discussionClicks per task. Search time. User errors. For starts. Here's a start: http://measuringu.com/essential-metrics/
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on “GitLab’s Secret to Managing Employees in 160 Locations: Write Everything Down”Submitted Rating Scales: Myth vs. Evidence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDuring this time there were a total of 67 new subscriptions. Of these 58% (39) came from the new design and 42% (28) came from the old design. Looks like the new one is a clear winner. Is it? This seems a small population to settle on a clear winner. Using R's prop test, I get a p value of 0.22. (Type "prop.test(39,67)" to calculate it). I think this means that in a world where it makes no difference which design is…
Comment linking /wald/
on “A/B testing original design vs. random template bought from ThemeForest”Submitted Takeaways from the Latest Research on Thinking Aloud in Usability Testing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFurther reading: https://measuringu.com/five-users/
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on “You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)”Submitted Can ChatGPT Replace UX Researchers? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Research Participants Forget as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The UX of Dating Websites and Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effects of Labeling the Neutral Response in the NPS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typical Ratio Between Designers and Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rating the Severity of Usability Problems as a story · 1 points
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