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- Immediately knew to click the friend's name in order to have her schedule overlaid.
Overall Comments:
- I don't imagine myself doing this in one sitting; need a way to save
- I wouldn't want to do the four-year plan and plan the current semester at the same time
- Would be cool if the software generated a schedule (with labs and recitations) for me, and then just allowed me to change if I didn't like certain of the choices made
- Maybe focus on the four-year plan and scrap the scheduling option, the four-year functionality is cooler
- Be careful with how you present restricting options by graying out, be clear about why this option is taken away
- Important to present information on each of the courses (pop-up), double click isn't necessarily the most intuitive
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- Added a counter of the units each semester.
- Adding data from the course evaluations as to how many hours per week of work each semester to see how heavy of a term has been selected
- Added the ability to schedule conflicts on the semester schedule
- Added indications of conflicts at the four year plan view for the current term.
- Added number of finals in term.
- Added the ability to search classes and save them in the persistant search box.
Usability Test Notes:
User
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Task 1:
Task 2:
Task 3:
User 2, Iteration 1
Task 1:
Task 2:
Task 3:
Overall Comments:
User 3, Iteration 1
Task 1:
Task 2:
Task 3:
Comments:
- While adding a class to her Sophomore Fall (current semester), noticed that a conflict occurs. She wants to click on it in order to see if she cares and if she should try to fix it.
- “Who teaches 6.034 in the Spring. Is he good?”
- Would like to see who generally teaches a class in a semester; acknowledges that it may not be the same per year.
Task 2:
- “Oooo, looks like an ugly Google Calendar.”
- Saw that two classes conflicted. Fixed it by switching one of the classes. Asked to make sure it would be saved in the four year plan.
- Would like to see the different combinations that the recitations may fit into her schedule. Instead of having to go through all of them to see the possibilities.
- Should pre-add working recitations (with no conflicts), then she can see if she would like to change it or not.
Task 3:
- Said the schedule may get too cluttered. Would like a way to see friend schedules by itself, like temporarily remove own schedule to clearly see friends schedules.
- Has no idea (not intuitive) how the Friend list is populated. No clear way to add someone.
Comments:
- Good system, but it seems like there are a lot of things going on. (Us as computers point out every single change.)
- Acknowledged that paper prototype does not easily show the differencing between what is clickable, draggable, double-clickable.
User 5, Iteration 2
Task 1:
- User concerned that the Prerequisite/Not Offered is unclear. (Hard to do on Paper Prototypes).
- Also asked about having professor information for classes (For Example, 6.034 with Winston is usually preferred to 6.034 without Winston)
- User asked about Double Majors, Minors. Current format doesn’t allow that, consider modularizing to include this? [SCOPE QUESTION: ARE WE FOCUSING ONLY ON 6-3? ARE WE ALLOWING OTHER MAJORS?]
Task 2:
- User wanted to know what recitations his friends were in (Informed him that’s Task 3)
- User wanted indications that he had selected all the class times needed for the classed (add some sort of check mark to indicate).
- (Also, add a conflict tag is there are conflicts at the schedule level, not just the 4 year plan level
- Does this register him for the classes (No. Likely will not do this in final implementation either)
Task 3:
- User does not care about Katy Perry (Informed him she is a placeholder)
- User wants “match my schedule to someone else’s” functionality (Will consider it, seems limited). From there, he can make adjustments.
Comments:
- Likes system. Has lots of questions about functionality.
- Spend time discussing paper prototype, how it would look in the real system.
- Likes Dragging feature, would like to see more of that. (Should we add Dragging on the Semester/Calender view?)
User 6, Iteration 2
Task 1:
- User is confused about what is clickable, what is draggable (considered printing out little cursors, but it is late. Real webpage will afford this)
- User is concerned about lag times (Explained this is paper prototype, made fake loading icon. User is amused) .
- User tries to click classes, frustrated. (Give hint as to drag).
- Would like to add “unavailable/busy times like my work” and see conflicts with that.
Task 2:
- User remembered Drag paradigm from Task 1 and tries to apply in Task 2. This does not work (THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM, inherent to paper prototype. MAKE SURE HIGHER FIDELITY PROTOYPE DOES NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM.
- User asks if this works for classes later than 5pm (the latest time shown on our calendar), (user is informed this is a paper constraint. User not amused)
- User tries to browse for classes outside of the task we specified. (We do not have screens for this, WE NEED TO MAKE SOME). User wants to know more information about the classes he’s adding to the calendar. User would like to know class ratings, professors, etc. (We can add this)
Task 3:
- User does not make semester calendar with friends, User would not use social feature.
- User comments that this is similar to Spotify (the social bar. Yes, this was the original inspiration for it). User likes Spotify.
- User would like to export schedule to people not in the system (consider adding this)
Comments:
- Search option is not fully shown. Does not entirely know what can be done after a class is searched and how to add it. In both the four-year plan and the current semester schedule.
- No way to browse classes. In order to search for electives, would have search for a specific number which would require needing to know a class. Would instead like to browse class, like using the subject listings page.