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A real user will be worse … but that’s kinda the point.

The most valuable thing you learn in usability/research is not if your experience works, but the way it’ll be misinterpreted, abused, and bent to do things it wasn’t designed to.




Enter "Drunk User Testing". Host a happy hour event and give some buzzed users some scenarios to test.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/an-open-bar-fo...

https://uxpamagazine.org/boozeability/




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