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- Test users were surprised by the drag-and-drop interactions, and most tried other interactions (such as clicking) before discovering how to mark classes as "interested in" or "definitely taking." Affordances will definitely be really important here.
- However, after realizing that classes could be dragged-and-dropped, users 1, 2, and 4 all exclaimed "Cool!" --> user satisfaction++
- Although all testers were MIT students, none of the users knew what the HASS-D numbers stood for, and most didn't know what all the department numbers were
Iteration 1 observations
User test 1 (tasks not used):
Search page
- user selected a few departments, reasoning was “I like course 6”, which doesn't really make sense because these are hass classes and there is probably at most one course 6 hass class. He didn't understand what all of the departments were there (was probably confused by the three letter ones like “STS” and such that are not described). He was puzzled why some of the department numbers were underlined and others weren't.
- user next goes over to the categories but has no idea what they are (they are basically listed as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Language, and Elective).
- user is confused about selecting a schedule
- user is confused about how to actually search. The search button was very large, but he instead clicked the “Browse” button on the top navigation bar. The button he clicked brings him to the search results, but he was very unsure of whether it would or not.
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- user is unsure of what he can search for in the search box – can you search for classes there?
- doesn't know what to do on friends page
User test 2 (tasks not used):
Search page
- user clicks not CI-H and doesn't care about final exam
- user doesn't know what the HASS category numbers are, suggests that we label what each one is
- user selects category 3
- user doesn't care about departments or schedule, so proceeds to the search results page.
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User test 3:
TBA...
Iteration 2
User test 1:
User test 2:
User test 3:
Prototype iteration
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