Show HN: DrunkUserTesting – How does your site perform in the wild?

Somebody took "the user is drunk" UI design method quite literally :)

Here is a video about the "the user is drunk" idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CbbBLVaPk

Basically, the idea is about assuming that your user has an attention and a vision of a drunk person, not designing a UI for literally drunk people.

I highly recommend the video.

Nothing happens when I click the button, so I guess I'm much drunker than I thought.

Not at all what happens to my vision when I'm drunk (comes closer to certain experiences from hallucinogens messing with your vision like psilocybin or LSD), funny nonetheless.

Wouldn't similar idea be to ask your friend who wears glasses to take them off and try to navigate your website? At least you would get real and honest review from real user.

Love it!

Suggestion for feature - make the area around the mouse button spin less and focus more in relation. This would be a way to approach that focuses squint that users would do when drunk and trying really hard to use a UI.

Great idea!

I actually just released a Chrome extension with an alternative approach to this kind of 'design testing': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041613

It's interesting how our approaches differ even though we're working on the same problem. I'd love to hear what you think.

This is hilarious. I couldn't get the extension to install, though. Also, you might want to repost it as "Show HN".

Trying this very much makes me dizzy and a bit ill. And I'm not the sort of person who gets motion sick.

"And if you weren't feeling nauseous before, this tool should certainly do the trick."

Would have been nice if the spinning was smoother, for that added dizziness-inducing effect.

Try running a usability test when you're the one that is drunk. It's hard.

You should have a mode that simulates "the spins."

I've never gotten this drunk.