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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> ‡ And if so, how do we include them in the design process?  Steve 
> suggested the possibility of user testing specifically for farmers, and I 
> think this is a great idea.  Perhaps we could create a testing prototype, 
> put a call out to market farmers, and solicit feedback specifically from 
> them.  Or Johns, would you rather keep testing general?

They can look at whatever our current "public" version is and provide 
feedback on how it does and does not meet their needs...same as anyone 
else, but from their particular perspective.

In this case it would be good to have a "user type" field of some kind 
in the tracker, so we have some idea from what perspective a bug or 
feature request is coming.
Alternately we could just ask for details on a particular request as 
necessary.

We could also float a simple survey asking them what plant and related 
information would be useful to them and how they would (like to) go 
about searching for it.
Get them to generate user scenarios from their perspectives, in other words.

cheers,
John S.


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