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Task 1:
Search for students who have taken both 6.813 and 11.127 and know how to program in .
Task 2:
Update the search for students who know Java or C++ and also know MATLAB.
Task 23:
Examine one student’s full profile.
Task 34:
Hide 3 students from the list.
Task 45:
Restore 1 student to the list.
Task 56:
Email 3 students about interview times.
Task 67: (optional)
Start a new search
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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.
Iteration 1
User A:
The first user never seemed to realize the concept of deleting, whether it be a user or a keyword. When he messed up the OR input, he actually just decided to start from scratch and re-enter all the information. In fact, he eventually directly input the phrase from the card to get the intended output. His only variance was the addition of parenthesis. He completely skipped the task of deleting users, because he kept selecting them and couldn't figure out what to do with them.
User B:
User C:
Overall Takeaways:
None of our users even attempted to drag and drop the tags together to create an OR. Similarly, they all had extreme difficulties with adding OR inputs.... they just didn't know what the expected behavior was.
Iteration 2
User A:
User B:
User C:
Overall Takeaways:
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