I am conducting a usability test of my web application for my research. It's a one-page analytical dashboard. The question is, will I get any useful data from screen recording during the test?
Existing research work says that there is virtually no correlation between cursor movement (speed/click rate) and perceived usability of web-site. Since my dashboard contains just one page, I cannot track any navigation through screen recording. So, am I missing something, or there is indeed no point for me to do screen recording for this usability test?
I would appreciate any help/opinion on this! Thanks :)
Answer
I believe it depends on the kind of layout you want to test. this would be more useful to complex layouts (such as dashboards). Did usability testing with screen recording and it provided some insights and user pain points. For us what was particularly useful is the sequence in which users tried to do things. Give the user specific tasks and observe how they try to achieve them using your UI.
Added to the screen recording, asking the user to think out loud will help too.
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