To gather people for my Maze user testing exercise I uploaded multiple posts on social media and I also reached out to random type 1 diabetic on twitter from around the globe. I wanted this to have a snowball effect to gather numbers. My message to twitter users looked like this:

Hello! I see you are a type 1 diabetic and I was wondering if you could please help me out. It should only take 5 mins :) I’ve been working on an app for diabetics throughout my final year of university called Insurin. Insurin has a strong focus upon insulin dependent diabetics who are newly diagnosed and trying to navigate around a new life changing condition. It focuses hugely upon education and guidance, aiming to prevent complications and train diabetics on how to look after their body. I’ve created a low resolution version of my app (no colour or illustrations) and am wanting to test some parts of the app out to see what can be improved upon and doesn’t make sense that I’m unaware of. Do you mind taking part? It isn’t an actual test, instead something I can learn from so don’t worry! It’s probably best to do on a laptop instead of mobile, but can still be carried out on mobile of course. Here is the link if you are keen: https://t.maze.co/76768526, no worries if not, thanks so much for your time!😊

<aside> 💡 Follow this link to view my usability test: https://t.maze.co/76768526

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