Design
Describe the final design of your interface. Illustrate with screenshots. Point out important design decisions and discuss the design alternatives that you considered. Particularly, discuss design decisions that were motivated by the three evaluations you did (paper prototyping, heuristic evaluation, and user testing).
Implementation
Describe the internals of your implementation, but keep the discussion on a high level. Discuss important design decisions you made in the implementation. Also discuss how implementation problems may have affected the usability of your interface.
Evaluation
Describe how you conducted your user test. Describe how you found your users and how representative they are of your target user population (but don't identify your users by name). Describe how the users were briefed and what tasks they performed; if you did a demo for them as part of your briefing, justify that decision. List the usability problems you found, and discuss how you might solve them.
Briefing
Thank you for participating in our user interface test. Your participation will allow us to find problems with our interface and will help us to build a more user-friendly interface.
In the following mock scenario, you will be a diligent and studious 11th grade student studying a variant of pidgin English language called Singlish. Your Singlish I class uses the textbook “Singlish for Dummies”, and your class has studied up to and is currently studying chapter 7 of this book. Being the hard-worker that you are, you have discovered “Reading Practice”, a web application that helps members to practice reading in their language of study by providing a database of sentences in that language to read. The paper prototype you are about to be shown is a possible design for the web application’s user interface. You will be using it to practice Singlish.
In order to help us understand the user’s experience, we ask that you think aloud and ask about any uncertainties that you may have. Remember, this test is entirely voluntary, and you may stop at anytime.
Scenario Tasks
1. Create an account and log in.
2. Find a sentence that contains the word 'clock', read it, and find out its English translation.
3. Forbid a word from appearing in sentences.
4. Find the definition of "似乎".
5. Find more sentences that contain the word "clock'. Close some of them, and then reopen them.
6. Return to a "General Review" of all words, and find a new sentence to read using all of the vocabulary from Chapter 5 of the Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course and nothing else.
7. Re-allow the word that you forbade in step 3 to appear in sentences again.
8. Contribute a sentence.