For example, let’s imagine we were hired to test the content on Investopedia.com, a site that provides investment news as well as explanations of complex financial concepts written for different experience levels. We’d need to start by spending hours just to explore the site: learning the types of content offered, the target audience(s), and as much as possible about the content. This latter type of knowledge would be particularly important if we weren’t already very familiar with finance or investment.

For example, let’s imagine we were hired to test the content on Investopedia.com, a site that provides investment news as well as explanations of complex financial concepts written for different experience levels. We’d need to start by spending hours just to explore the site: learning the types of content offered, the target audience(s), and as much as possible about the content. This latter type of knowledge would be particularly important if we weren’t already very familiar with finance or investment.