![]() ![]() The first few can be fascinating, but after that…. ![]() As much as I love usability testing, watching a batch of prerecorded tests can be, quite honestly, like watching paint dry. Many years ago (perhaps 20), I sometimes found myself watching videos of usability tests that someone else had conducted. If I couldn’t skip them, there are many books I’m sure I wouldn’t have read.) I can’t picture them well in my head, so they add nothing to the experience. (Personally, I instantly skim past any description of a landscape in a novel. But for the most part, it’s very effective and efficient. And it can often lead to skipping over the harder stuff (the parts we don’t understand), which may be exactly what we do need to read carefully. We’re not always the best judges of what we need to pay attention to. This flexibility lets us skip over (or at least breeze through) the parts that just aren’t of much interest or value to us. We’re constantly adjusting our pace, all the way from “just glancing at the headings” to “rereading the same sentence until we finally understand it”, with dozens of gradations in between. One problem is the inherent difference between print and video: You can skim print. But most webinars (frankly), and even things like TED talks (although I know it’s heresy to say it aloud) can seem to go on forever.Īnd as soon as my attention starts to wander, I start kidding myself that I can actually multitask, which amounts to a) opening up my inbox and working through some of the email languishing there while I half-listen, and b) gradually losing the thread of what the speaker is saying, which makes it seem even more boring. I don’t mind if a film noir from the 40’s drags when I’m watching it on TV that’s part of the fun. I don’t know about you, but even though I enjoy watching some videos online, I almost always find them to be t o o s l o w. ![]()
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