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Update your group's wiki page so that it contains a section GR3 Paper Prototyping, containing the following subsections:
- *Prototype photos.*Digital photos of the pieces of your prototype. Show the prototype in interesting states; don't just show a blank window. Although you will iterate your paper prototype during this assignment, the photos only need to show one iteration.
- *Briefing.*The briefing you gave to users.
- *Scenario Tasks.*The tasks you gave to users, as you wrote them on the cards.
- Observations.*Usability problems you discovered from the testing. Describe critical incidents encountered by the users, but *don't record users' names. Record these as a series of high-level takeaways, focusing on the usability problems you saw, rather than what each participant did. For instance, you might describe how you had some learnability issues with your prototype, as evidenced by users B and C clicking all of the menus to try to find option X.
- *Prototype iteration.*You did two rounds of paper prototyping. Describe how your prototype changed between those two rounds.
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The task is for you to enter these five ballots. We will give you the tasks as you go, here is your first one.
Scenario Tasks:
Round 1:
Task 1:
- Task: “Begin entering votes. Go through one full ballot at a time.”
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Task 6: After 4 ballots have been entered, at any point:
- “Finish entering votes”
Round 2:
(We changed the wording slightly to make the usability test process faster)
INSERT TASKS HERE!
Observations:
Round 1:
User 1:
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- Are these buttons or drag and drop?
- What happens if you make a mistake? -> jumped ahead in tasks
- Successfully fixed a mistake without hesitation
- "Prototype is very thorough"
- Restarted previous race without hesitation
- "Race" -> last race or previous ballot?
- Do you need to record who the write in was?
- "Does the progress bar measure races in a ballot or across all ballots?"
Round 2:
User 1:
- Where do you enter write-in?
- Doesn't see candidate names as buttons to click on
- Restarted previous ballot opposed to just clicking race/candidate name
- Understood the second time that you can click a name and not just reset whole ballot
- Like the fix mistake button.
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- Can tell that in the main screen, right is for selection and left is for verification
- "You have to reenter all information?" when going back to fix mistake
- Expected to change just one race and return to same location
- Expected to see the panel on the right - "You work on the left and see a review on the right"
User Users 3 and 4:
- weird to click on the left panel after getting used to just using that as feedback
- confused about reset and clicking on a race
- wants to see animation of current moving down to previous
- wants heading to be at top, buttons closer together
- didn't read help menu carefully
- read help menu sequentially, as if things were in order
- wants to fix mistakes two ballots ago
- really doesn't understand what the reset ballot button does
Paper Prototype Images:
Images (Round 1) | Caption |
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| This is the first screen the user was shown - we skipped the log in screens, etc. |
| This is the menu that popped up when users selected "Fix Mistake" |
| If users chose "Help" on the "Fix Mistake" menu, they would see these instructions. This state was never encountered in user testing. |
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