GR3 - Paper Prototyping
Prototype Photos
Briefing
Before you is a website called "ManCourses." The website is based around creating a course plan for the upcoming semester. With this website, you can view classes, see your registration, and sync your registration with online calendars. You are a user named "John," who has used the website before. Please complete the tasks given to you on index cards and talk through your thoughts aloud.
Scenario Tasks
(1) View your current class registration, and remove one of the classes.
(2) Add a required class to your current registration.
(3) Sync your course registration with gmail calendar.
(4) View information regarding 6.005.
Observations
Most of the tasks were easily completed by the users. In some cases, we had issues with the last two tasks. From our observations, we realized that it was difficult for users to understand how to find a way to sync with gcal. We had intended that the user click on the small calendar icon on the same row of buttons, but that was not apparently obvious to many of them. They complained that they weren't sure whether to click on the icon or to roll-over it. Also, it was not easy to find on the large screen.
In addition, users had a difficult time with finding 6.005. Although we had set-up the system so there were many ways to accomplish this, we had intended users to use the search bar underneath the main buttons. Various users went back to pages which they remembered having 6.005 as a class listed, or would go through some other convoluted pathway. Most said that the search should be better accentuated, or that there should be a more visible way of not being in one of the three modes provided.