For product suppliers
Do: Explain the CIF to your development team. Make sure they understand how this is different from a formative evaluation and why the report looks like it does.
Do: Use the CIF for the benchmark studies of your product. The CIF is designed for these types of summative studies.
Do: Encourage your customers to do [...]
Produced by Industry Usability Reporting (IUSR)project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the overall purpose of the Common Industry Format (CIF) for Usability Test Reports is to promote incorporation of usability as part of the procurement decision-making process for interactive products. Examples of such decisions include purchasing, upgrading and automating. It provides [...]