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User Testing
Tasks
1. Record something
2. Edit
3. Add a harmony line
4. Export
Transcripts
User 1
Android User
A capella singer
Starting with old edit interface, then getting commentary on new
1. Record Something
Records without looking at phone, trusting it to work
"Is it gonna play back as voice or what?"
He sings a fast song kind of quietly and the recording is um, is quite different from what he said
Uses undo to try again.
"twinkle twinkle..." Sings with the words
It does better but gets some noise and merges many double notes
"It has a problem with notes on the same pitch, but I would probably just articulate more if I wanted it to work. That might be hard to actually do."
2. Edit a note
"How does one edit notes?"
"Wah!
Drags pitch
"Wait, did that even move?" Arrows might be blocking note
plays to confirm
"Wait, stop!" Seems to have a bit of difficulty finding stop, but it's the first time he used play after all.
"I wanted this note!" and moves it to the right place, but clicks back.
"Oh check box! I didn't see that. I pressed the back button thinking it was okay."
"Can I split notes?"
Tries various buttons to see if he can find split
Trying to use arrows that have x's over them, probably mostly looking at the note he wants to edit and stroking based on that
Tries left/right stroking.
"that made it shorter..."
"Gah, not clear that that's possible"
accidentally clicked a note trying to move cursor
"I like the swipe up and down to get the right pitch, cuz you can hear what you want."
3. Record a harmony or something
"Let's do it in a round."
accidentally started recording at end rather than start
accidentally pressed play to record, then surprised no notes show up
gets right button
this time looks at screen to record, sometimes. Maybe trying to line it up but gives up
seems to figure out how tracks work just fine
"at the beginning I was trying to track it... but it's completely off."
"now it will sound completely weird"
presses play
it does
"it's hard to record harmony without knowing the original tune."
"Now that's modern music!"
"I'd definitely want to hear what I'm recording against, but I don't know how easy that is"
"you could definitely recommend using headphones, but it's really hard to record more than one track without that."
4. Export song
"Okay I'm gonna save it as."
"Uh, Modern twinkle twinkle. save."
back
"Tap and hold for options. Ok, let's export it to midi!"
"whoah I can send it to (all these things)!"
"Where does wifi go? Does it just go, randomly somewhere over the network? Oh, so it looks like wifi direct. Ok I don't know what wifi direct is."
"I'll email it to myself! Look I'm in alan's contact list."
"Now let's ask myself if I got a midi! Well, not yet."
App crashed awhile after export.
Nudge questions:
Did you notice you can change instruments?
"No. Oh, I didn't try this settings button. Aha! All of these guys look familiar"
What did you think of note editing interface?
swiping all directions
"I like the up and down, that's for sure. The moving the note left to right seems sort of difficult. For one it seems to move in big chunks. The x's mean you can't move it any further, right? Obviously you can't move a note to zero. I guess you have a maximum note length? That doesn't seem so reasonable. Or it just doesn't, wait, I guess it's not clear to me whether that's a max note length or, oh, I see, it goes until it butts the next note in the same voice. That makes mores sense. Yeah. I guess it's hard to deal with, like say I wanted to move a note forward a little bit in time, that would be kinda difficult with this interface. At the same time it is also useful to stretch and shrink notes, I think it's hard to get all of that in there."
Try my interface. I tell him my phone takes longer to record things.
Means to hit record
"Oh that was play."
"hellooooooo helllooooooooooo!"
seems to record okay, gets random noise an octave above.
"awo!"
has a bit of a hard time pressing the note.
"it doesn't have this whole save making changes to a note, or stop making changes to a note, you just click away. I see."
"It's a liiiitle strange. You have to click directly on a note and then drag it to move it, whereas in alan's you can click anywhere to drag it. What's the most confusing about this up and down part is that I have to drag it, but it doesn't follow my finger exactly. Okay let's try left and right."
"Okay so that moves it left and right, oh I like that."
"and that makes it bigger, okay"
"I like the left and right. I definitely like the left and right better. You can do that without changing the width of the note, and you can change the width. That's cool, sweet."
"It does seem to be easier to do a lot of different notes."
"I definitely noticed on Alan's you can just click undo if you don't want your change... But since you have undo up here, that's probably..."
Compare them.
I think that.. hmm. (thinks for quite awhile)
(Playing with alan's) "is this actually centered on the note? hmm I think I would kind of like Alan's better except with left and right functionality more like yours. You know with move in all directions in the middle" (lots of gesticulation)
"it's true getting from note to note is much faster in this one (DD's)"