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Google have set up usability testing lab

ZDnet UK is reporting that Google have opened a small internet cafe in London’s Heathrow Airport called Google Space – But compared to other cafes this one can be used by the commuters free of charge. So what’s the catch? Google wants to use the cafe as a real-world usability testing lab. Google will each day man the café with its own personal flown in from their offices around the world.

Slashdot is also running a story on this.

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This entry was posted by Thomas Watson Steen on Saturday, November 26th, 2005 at 12:56 (GMT-1) and is filed under Usability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Google have set up usability testing lab”

  1. Piotr Says:
    November 27th, 2005 at 21:02 (GMT-1)

    And i though Mircosoft was aiming for World Domination….

    On the other hand .. Excelent cutting edge buisiness strategy. Nice to see someone thinks out of the box, and actualy does sometning untraditional.

  2. Jesper Rønn-Jensen Says:
    November 30th, 2005 at 23:42 (GMT-1)

    This post is mentioned by John Gibbard, Smorgasbord design blog

    In other usability news
    Meanwhile Google are being incredibly proactive (and maybe a bit Big Brother) in opening a Google Space usability lab at Heathrow where they can assess a large volume of user experiences. Jesper Rønn-Jensen and Thomas Watson Steen alerted me to this through their Standards & Usability blog

  3. Jesper Rønn-Jensen Says:
    December 20th, 2005 at 10:48 (GMT-1)

    There is a photo of Google Space from the official Google Blog:

  4. Henrik Stenmann Says:
    June 24th, 2006 at 20:21 (GMT-1)

    And I though Mircosoft was aiming for World Domination….

    On the other hand .. Excelent cutting edge buisiness strategy. Nice to see someone thinks out of the box, and actualy does sometning untraditional.

    Why this comment…