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 student studying Mandarin Chinese. Your class uses the textbook "Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course for Mandarin Chinese", and you want to practice reading sentences that use the words found in Chapter 1. To do so, you're using Reading Practice, a web application that helps members practice reading in their language of study by providing a databse of sentences in that language to read.
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. Enable all vocabulary from Chapter 1 of your textbook, "Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course for Mandarin Chinese" to be displayed in sentences.
3. Find a sentence containing 好 (hao4), read it, and find out its English translation
4. This sentence contains 忙. Find out its pronunciation and definition, and find another sentence containing it.
5. Prevent 我 (wo3) from appearing in subsequently fetched sentences
6. Make it such that the 2 sentences currently being displayed in the "Currently Reading" tab are no longer displayed.
7. Restore one of the sentences that you just removed from display back to the "Currently Reading" tab.
8. Find another sentence containing 好. Note that this was the previous study focus.
9. Now you want to return to a general review of all words you know, and aren't focused on studying a particular word. Switch to a general review of all words, and fetch 2 sentences for review.
10. Contribute a sentence.
Observations during User Testing
User 1:
User 2:
User 3:
Reflection
Discuss what you learned over the course of the iterative design process. If you did it again, what would you do differently? Focus in this part not on the specific design decisions of your project (which you already discussed in the Design section), but instead on the meta-level decisions about your design process: your risk assessments, your decisions about what features to prototype and which prototype techniques to use, and how you evaluated the results of your observations.