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 both 6.813 and 11.127.
Task 2:
Update the search for students who know Java or C++ and also know MATLAB.
Task 3:
Examine one student’s full profile.
Task 4:
Hide 3 students from the list.
Task 5:
Restore 1 student to the list.
Task 6:
Email 3 students about interview times.
Task 7: (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:
The first user never seemed to realize the concept of deleting, whether it be a user or a keyword. When he messed up the OR input, he actually just decided to start from scratch and re-enter all the information. In fact, he eventually directly input the phrase from the card to get the intended output. His only variance was the addition of parenthesis. He completely skipped the task of deleting users, because he kept selecting them and couldn't figure out what to do with them.
User B:
User C:
Overall Takeaways:
None of our users even attempted to drag and drop the tags together to create an OR. Similarly, they all had extreme difficulties with adding OR inputs.... they just didn't know what the expected behavior was.
Iteration 2
User A:
User B:
User C:
Overall Takeaways: