SharePoint Users and Administrators Needed for Microsoft User Research
I recently received an email from a friend (Karen Angelli, a UX Designer for Microsoft Office). She mentioned that they are working to improve the user experience of SharePoint for the next release, which has some very interesting changes to the UI. They will do remote usability studies for this release, but they need help in finding good participants!
Here’s the blurb:
SharePoint Users and Administrators Needed for Microsoft User Research.
Microsoft User Research conducts thousands of usability studies, focus groups, and site visits every year with real end users just like you. We do this for every single product we make but at the moment we are particularly interested in people who use SharePoint. Whether you’re a hard-core SharePoint administrator or an occasional end user, we would like to talk to you about your experience with the product.
You may get to experience a new product or new feature of an existing product that has not been released to the public. We’ll ask you for honest feedback about your experience in order to make improvements to the final product before we ship it. Your feedback can make a real difference in the user experience for millions of future users! As a thank you for your participation, we’ll offer you a choice of retail Microsoft products from a list of our most popular titles including Office 2007, Windows Vista, Xbox 360 games, Zune accessories, and much more.
Interested? Sign up online at www.microsoft.com/UserResearch. We’ll contact you directly when we have a study that matches your experience and interests.