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A first step towards writing good comments is to use different words in the comment from those in the name of the entity being described.
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
One way to focus on the journey is to ask participants to **think out loud.** This means they should vocalize every single thought that comes to them while they complete your tasks. This is unnatural, and your participants might need to practice before they get good at it. Tell your participants something like this: “May I request that you think out loud? This means that you should vocalize everything that you’re thinking. For example, when you click a button, you can say something like ‘I want to click this button because I think that’s how I purchase this item.’”
6.7: 4 Common Pitfalls in Usability Testing and How to Avoid Them to Get More Honest Feedback
The Interaction Design Foundation
We can think of physical processes as computations in the general sense that input configurations are acted upon by the laws of nature to yield output configurations.
The Engine of Complexity
John Hollenbeck and John Mayfield
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