Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Plan for Usability Testing

Our target audience is the student population at OSU, so we will look for random students on campus who would be willing to test our wireframe. 

There are many ways to solicit these individuals to take the usability test. As a start, we will be sending emails to all our classmates from all the classes we are taking this semester. All three of us have different majors and classes so we would be reaching a wide range of students with different interests, such as business, arts, engineering, english, and design. Secondly, we will be sending messages on Facebook to the friends we know attend OSU. And finally, we will be approaching students personally with a laptop on the Oval. That way we can achieve a wide range of tests from different perspectives. 

Since the paper-prototype version of the website, the only thing we really changed were the side tabs we had which sat vertically on the page. We realized that it was hard to read the vertical text and that it would be easier for the user if we moved the respective tabs to the top of the page with regular horizontal text instead. 

After the paper wireframe exercise done in class we were able to further observe that there was indeed a certain level of discomfort when students tried to read the tabs vertically. That wouldn't change our script, however, our design layout changed a little. As mentioned before, we moved the side tabs to the top of the page. 

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