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-How representative of the user population are they?
-How were users briefed? What tasks were performed?
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User Brief
This is StreamBrowser, a site designed to help you find live internet streams. Channels are grouped by categories and are searchable. We want to emulate the experience of TV channel browsing for internet streaming.
User Tasks
- Please watch a stream in the Strategy Games category.
- Please watch Artosis's stream.
- Please go back to the first stream that you watched.
Usability Problems
Some users tried to drag and drop thumbnails around in the Viewing History tab. One user commented that the Viewing History tab reminded him of Youtube's playlist, and on Youtube you can drag thumbnails of videos around to reorder the playlist. Although we originally envisioned the Viewing History as a simple list, rather than a playlist, it would be good to implement dragging and dropping of thumbnails in the Viewing History. The solution to this problem would be to simply implement this feature.
Some users were confused that the stream video did not automatically start playing when reaching the page. We should try to make the stream video start playing immediately after loading, but this may be a restriction of the stream provider itself on the embedding of their player on third party sites (for example, embedded Youtube videos do not autoplay)
Reflection
TODO:
-What did we learn from this iterative design process?
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