GR3: Paper Prototyping
Prototype Photos
Digital photos of the pieces of your prototype. Show the prototype in interesting states; don't just show a blank window. Although you will iterate your paper prototype during this assignment, the photos only need to show one iteration.
Briefing
The briefing you gave to users that describes orally the purpose of the application and background information about the domain.
This briefing should be at most a page of information about the purpose of your application and any background information about the domain that may be needed by your test users (who may be classmates) to understand it. These are your notes for the briefing, so make them short, simple and clear, not dense wordy paragraphs. This is not a manual or quick-reference card. It should not describe how to use the interface.
Scenario Tasks
The tasks you gave to users, as you wrote them on the cards. Your scenario should have involved at least three tasks. You should write these tasks down to give to your users. Just write the concrete goal(s) of the task (e.g. "buy milk, tomatoes, and bread"). Don't write the specific steps to follow, since that's for your users to figure out. The tasks should be brief, roughly 5 minutes to run.
Host User Class
As detailed in GR1, two user classes (hosts and commenters) interacts with our interface.
Briefing for Hosts
You are requesting feedback about a digitized visual art work that you have been working on. You use ArtBark to collect tangible, actionable feedback to improve your art piece. This comprises two stages that are separated in time: 1) uploading the work and requesting the customized feedback from specific individuals and 2) browsing through the feedback after it has been received.
Briefing for the Commenters
Your feedback about a visual art work is being solicited. You want to help the requestor improve the art piece you are about to see.
Scenario Tasks
Tasks for Hosts
Host Task 1 (Feedback request stage):
Host Task 1 (Feedback request stage) Upload the digital visual work ("Countryside Landscape v3.0") you want to get feedback on. Specify that how this This an updated version of an existing art piece (Project "Countryside") you've requested feedback on previously.
Host Task 2 2 (Feedback request stage) Customize :
You want to direct the type (s) of critique you are looking for. In addition to general comments, get. This is another iteration, and at this point, you are only interested in feedback about "Context", " Technique ", and of " Emotional " nature . Host Task 3 (Feedback request stage) Select the individuals and groups you would like (in addition to general comments). You wish to get feedback from : your peers Amy and Kyleyour peers Meelap and Katrina, and from your mentor(s) Rob. You However, you don't want feedback from your peers to be visible by to the mentor(s).
Host Task 4 3 (Feedback view stage) Find :
You got a notification that feedback that feedback was entered for your latest version and go to ArtBark. First, find out what are the the comments (not specific to an area in your art-piece), coming only from your peers. Identify : you are interested in both general (non-categorized) comments, and those about "Technique". *Host Task 5 (Feedback view stage) Find Then, given what you read, you find out all comments (coming from all reviewers) that are +are specific to the background +tree in your art piece
Host Task 6 4 (Feedback view stage):
One of your mentors, Haoqi (who you knew would be too busy to review your updated art piece this time around) had an interesting comment on a previous version, that you feel you have ignored, but you are not sure what it was. Find out allall comments , from all types, coming from your mentorsmentor(s), on the Feb 22 (previous) 22 version of your art piece.*
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Task for Commenters
Commenter Task 1: Enter a comment explaining
You get a request an email request for feedback from your peer and clicking on it opens up the corresponding art work. Enter a comment stating that you disagree with the other reviewer's comment (Meelap) on the right. Make it clear that your comment is of "Emotional" nature. Then, rate this art piece accordingly.
Commenter Task 2: Enter
You want to enter a comment regarding the "Technique" used. You want to make , specifically for the Foilage of the Tree. Make sure the artist knows which area of can easily identify where on the art piece (Foilage of the tree) this comment relates to.Commenter Task 3: You is relevant. Oops! You actually meant to have the comment regarding the Foilage be about "Context" (there are no leaves in the winter season!). Edit the type of comment.Commenter Task 4: Rate this version of the art piece, as well as its wording.
Observations
Usability problems you discovered from the testing. Describe critical incidents encountered by the users, but don't record users' names. Record these as a series of high-level takeaways, focusing on the usability problems you saw, rather than what each participant did. For instance, you might describe how you had some learnability issues with your prototype, as evidenced by users B and C clicking all of the menus to try to find option X.
Prototype iteration
You did two rounds of paper prototyping. Describe how your prototype changed between those two rounds.