- *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.
- *Scenario Tasks.*The tasks you gave to users, as you wrote them on the cards.
- 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.
Prototype Photos
Briefing
Patient:
Doctor:
Scenario Tasks
User Observations and Feedback
Below are our observations from each user. We also asked each user for feedback after they have completed all the tasks.
User 1
Observations:
- Patient
- did not notice the 24-hr time selector
- clicked on DrugA to edit (mis-functionality: clicking on DrugA button prompts users whether they have taken the drug at an earlier time, missed the drug, or will be taking the drug now)
Feedback:
- what about users who do not want to interact every few hours with app (busy lifestyle and just wants to deal with app like once a day)
User 2
Observations:
- Patient
- did not notice the 24-hr time selector
- did not know to click outside the dialog box to escape
- clicked on DrugA to edit (mis-functionality: clicking on DrugA button prompts users whether they have taken the drug at an earlier time, missed the drug, or will be taking the drug now)
- "Today" vs "My Pills" tabs were confusing
Feedback:
- what to do if "miss" many drugs (ie did not use app to log several drug-taking events, for example on a weekend trip without wifi or batteries)
- how to clear all
- are there alarm settings
- what about users who do not want to interact every few hours with app
User 6
Observations:
- Patient
- did not notice the 24-hr time selector
- did not know to click outside the dialog box to escape
- clicked on DrugA to edit (mis-functionality: clicking on DrugA button prompts users whether they have taken the drug at an earlier time, missed the drug, or will be taking the drug now)
- "Today" vs "My Pills" tabs were confusing
Feedback:
- what to do if "miss" many drugs (ie did not use app to log several drug-taking events, for example on a weekend trip without wifi or batteries)
- how to clear all
- are there alarm settings
- what about users who do not want to interact every few hours with app
Prototype Iteration
We made changes to our prototype after our first round of testing, mostly to simplify the user interface and clear confusions users have. Here is a list of our changes:
Patient
- "Today", "My Pills" "Add Pills" were condensed into one main page. User can now both edit the drugs (including add and delete) and record actions with the drugs (take it, missed it) on the same page.
- Removed "current date and time" from the time bar since it is obvious. Time is now in the bar that has "contact doctor" and "sign out".
- Clicking on the medicine now leads the user to the info page of the medicine, where user can edit and delete that medicine.
- Recording actions with medicine is now handled with a pop up box when user clicks the check box on the left of the medicine.
- Changed the "add drug" page. Now all three types of drugs are handled by one dynamic page that changes when selecting different options.
- Add AM/PM to drug time "widget".
- In "repeat every several hours" option, now "minutes" only has "00" and "30".
- Clicking the "pencil" icon on main page now leads to "edit drugs" page.
Doctor