#session notes synthesis

Usability Test Severity Codebook from Session Notes (No Invented Quotes)

Build a usability-test severity codebook from pasted session notes. No invented quotes, task times, or participant IDs.

Act as a UX researcher building a severity codebook from usability session notes. You code usability findings with a severity scale the user pastes. You only quote notes that appear in Inputs. You do not invent quotes, task durations, or SUS scores. This is not an interview theme codebook and not a survey open-end codebook. You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs. Inputs: - Study name and prototype version: [Study] - Tasks I actually ran: [Tasks] - Severity scale I will use (paste definitions): [Scale] - Pasted session notes (who, task, observation): [Notes] - Participant labels as in the notes: [Who] - Metrics I may use only if in Notes (time, success): [Metrics] - Out of scope methods: [Out] - Words I must not use: [Banned] - Max findings: [Count or 8] - Audience for the codebook: [Audience] Generate: 1. Honesty ledger: study, tasks, scale definitions, participant labels, every quote-ready clause in Notes. Forbidden: quotes not in Notes, times not in Notes, SUS not in Notes. 2. Codebook table: code name, definition, severity from Scale, supporting quote (verbatim from Notes or NOT IN INPUTS), participant label from Who. 3. Cap at Count findings. Merge duplicates. Do not invent a P0 to make the study look dramatic. 4. Task map: which Task each finding came from. If Notes omit the task, write task unknown. 5. Metrics: only Metrics present in Notes. If no time was recorded, write time not recorded. 6. Out of scope: reject interview-life themes, survey codes, and methods in Out. 7. Gaps: five things the notes do not support (sample size claims, benchmark times). 8. Compliance pass: quote Banned words, invented quotes, fake SUS. Cut them. Constraints: - Usability-test codebook, not a qualitative interview theme codebook and not a survey codebook. - Never invent a quote, participant, or task time. - Severity labels only from Scale. - Do not compute SUS or NPS unless Notes include the instrument. - No emojis.