Persona

No Experience Needed - Web Site Testers

Fancy making a bit of spare cash from time to time, whilst helping to make the web a better place? Read on then...

Persona design and make web sites for all kinds of clients and we're always looking for real people (like you) to help us test them. We do this to make sure they are easy to use, look good and help both and our clients get the most out of them - a bit of a win-win situation really.

As you can imagine, different web sites and clients are targeting different types of people. That's why we're always building up our database of willing web surfers. We're after people of all types of web experience, so don't worry if you're a newbie or a die-hard surfer.

So if you are happy to test our the odd web site or two and pocket some cash for the effort go ahead and sign yourself up, or tell your friends. To be honest, it's one of the easiest ways you'll find to make a few quid!

There are two types of people we're looking for at any given time:

1. Those of you who can come along to our testing lab for a focus group, test session or workshop in Nottingham city centre
2. Those of you who can't come to our lab, but can test out a web site from home

In either case, you'll get as much or as little help as you need on what to do and you'll always be given a set of tasks to follow and a questionnaire to fill out your findings on.

For tests in the lab, it's actually a lot of fun. The sessions are usually interactive, sometimes with the clients too. You get to meet some new people, drink as much tea and coffee as you like and have a bite to eat whilst chatting about your opinions.

You get paid for both types of tests and the amount you get paid varies depending on the amount of time you'll need to spend (typically 2-4 hours per project).

Not all clients and web sites are trying to sell you something!

The web is a very diverse place indeed; mixing shopping with entertainment, research with games - with new ideas coming along all the time.

Some typical types of client projects we test are:

• Entertainment sites that need to improve the way they present content to you
• Shopping sites that need to improve the way you can browse around or checkout
• Financial services that need to make their services clearer and easier to understand
• Small businesses that need to convince you to give them a call
• Charities who want to show people all the good work they are doing

The list goes on and on, so it's quite fun and interesting work to be involved in. Some projects will be for big, well known brands and others are exciting new services that will change the way people do something.