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Thinking aloud

Thinking aloud

Why?

Understand the reasons behind user behaviour, or uncover the mental models of the user in a usability test.

How?

Ask users to think aloud (say everything they are thinking) while performing a task in a usability test. As thinking aloud is quite unnatural, you remind users regularly to keep on voicing his/her thoughts. Since children are bad at voicing their thoughts, this technique can only be applied from the early teens on.

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In practice

The thinking aloud protocol is standard practice in usability testing, but can also be used in other situations to better understand the user's mental model.

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