Tag: Andy Williamson

Public consultation or user testing?

  • July 8, 2010 at 11:34 am

  • The only difference between engaging someone in public consultation and engaging them in user testing is, as far as I can see, the type of reward they get for taking part. With user testing it’s easy: the client pays a company an extortionate amount of money to test their product; or, if it’s being done [...]

‘Digital Citizens and Democratic Partipation’: discussion outcomes

  • April 20, 2010 at 8:15 am

  • Last night I ran the second of my small-scale research sharing sessions, this time on the Hansard Society’s recent report ‘Digital citizens and democratic engagement‘. I hadn’t had time to plan properly (and still haven’t got around to blogging about Simon’s Ordnance Survey OpenData presentation from last week) but we still managed to have a long [...]