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
Imagine that you are a professor trying to find a qualified student to work in your lab, which produces user interfaces for educators to easily create classroom materials. You would like to be able to see and potentially contact selected students who have taken 6.813 (UI design) and 11.127 (Computer Games and Simulations for Investigation and Education). Because your project is built in Java, you want students who have Java experience, but if they know C++ and Matlab they would also be able work on your project. Your tasks will be to use our user interface to search for qualified students, see more information about they students, and contact the ones you are interested in.
Scenario Tasks
Task 1:
Search for students who have taken 6.813 and 11.127 and know how to program in Java or C++ and MATLAB.
Task 2:
Examine one student’s full profile.
Task 3:
Hide 3 students from the list.
Task 4:
Restore 1 student to the list.
Task 5:
Email 3 students about interview times.
Task 6: (optional)
Start a new search
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.
Iteration 1
User A:
User B:
User C:
Overall Takeaways:
Iteration 2
User A:
User B:
User C:
Overall Takeaways: