Prototype Photos
Briefing
First of all, thank you for participating in our user study. We're designing an application for our 6.813 User Interface Design class, and we've made a few paper prototypes for you to test.
Our design is continuously evolving and we need your help to further improve our user interface. Remember, we're testing our design, not your abilities. As such, please feel free to explore the various parts of the interface and do not be afraid to say that you don't know how to do something. Any difficulties that you encounter are opportunities for us to improve; they are not your fault. Your results will be kept strictly confidential and will only be used to help us improve our design.
The idea behind the application is to allow college students and other groups of friends to find what drinks they can make given a collection of ingredients. As you might know, sometimes it is difficult to come up with an interesting recipe on the spot. We also want to allow interaction among users by allowing upvotes or downvotes of drinks and the ability to write comments and add your original recipes.
We'll present you a paper prototype of the interface, an enlarged version as it would act on a standard touchscreen smartphone. Just treat the paper as the phone's screen and interact with it as you would a touchscreen device. We'll give you three short tasks to do on this interface. As you do certain things, I will be changing the paper in front of you or its contents to reflect your actions, and my teammates will be taking notes on your actions or responses, things that you say, or anything that. If you can, we would greatly appreciate you thinking out loud, so that we can note your thought process and see if any parts of our design are unintuitive.
Finally, if you would like to take a break or stop, feel free to do so at any time.
Scenario Tasks
Task 1 - Searching
You are at a party and have the following ingredients:
- orange juice
- pineapple juice
- vodka
- ginger ale
- sprite
Find the highest rated drink that can be made from these ingredients.
Task 2 - Voting
Find the drink that you just looked up. Either "vote up" or "vote down" the drink depending on whether you like it or not.
Task 3 - Commenting
Find the drink that you just looked up. Leave a short comment about the drink.