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Present site on landing screen. See if they notice the new TASK to fully tag their recently uploaded picture from mobile. If not, prompt them to choose the Task and tag the picture appropriately.
Observations
Round 1 Observations
We found these usability problems in the first iteration of our prototype, while testing on Users 1, 2 and 3.
Bad Affordances on Landing Page
The titles for “Recently Added” and “Recently Favorited” were meant to be links themselves, but we did not make that clear enough, as all three users were unaware that you could click them to bring up the mosaic view for those pictures.
Unclear Result of Mobile Upload
Users 2 and 3 both expressed that they were unclear if the picture had been uploaded on the mobile site because hitting “submit” merely removed the picture from the screen. This was due to a complete lack of a message confirming the upload had indeed happened.
Bad Learnability to Close Popup
When the View/Edit popup window for specific pictures came into view, users were not aware that this was in fact a popup window and it could be closed as such with the X in the top right. Perhaps the affordances for making it seem like a popup window were not apparent enough in our prototype or the X was not large enough and too far the from the locus of attention of the user.
Task Were Noticed!
Although, one great success we had was that all three users noticed the new Task to refine the tagging on their pictures
Round 1 Observations
We found these usability problems in the first iteration of our prototype, while testing on Users 1, 2 and 3.
Bad Affordances on Landing Page
The titles for “Recently Added” and “Recently Favorited” were meant to be links themselves, but we did not make that clear enough, as all three users were unaware that you could click them to bring up the mosaic view for those pictures.
Unclear Result of Mobile Upload
Users 2 and 3 both expressed that they were unclear if the picture had been uploaded on the mobile site because hitting “submit” merely removed the picture from the screen. This was due to a complete lack of a message confirming the upload had indeed happened.
Bad Learnability to Close Popup
When the View/Edit popup window for specific pictures came into view, Users 1 and 2 were not aware that this was in fact a popup window and it could be closed as such with the X in the top right. Perhaps the affordances for making it seem like a popup window were not apparent enough in our prototype or the X was not large enough and too far the from the locus of attention of the user.
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