Cassandrich@dalias@hachyderm.io
This includes things as stupid as whether to place the button on the left or right, or what color scheme to use. If you want to conduct tests to make those decisions, HIRE and PAY testers. Don't make unwitting users your guinea pigs.
Cat Hicks@grimalkina@mastodon.social
@dalias@hachyderm.io this is an extremely conservative stance and one that doesn't match what I've seen both in my training as an IRB administrator and in the general research ethics training on human subjects; plenty of stuff is exempt and even consent exempt. I understand the concerns people are raising in this thread about behavioral experiments, but minimal product research? Collecting consent itself introduces risk for things like personal data storage. It is just more complicated than you're saying.