GR6: User Testing

Design

Final Design of Interface (screenshots)

Overview

ArtBark is designed with two users groups in mind: Artists who are looking for detailed, meaningful feedback about a work, and reviewers who will provide the feedback. As many users will play both roles, the artist’s upload interface, the reviewer’s interface and the artist’s review interface were designed to flow together seamlessly for learnability and consistency.

Accounts

We decided to use a very simple account model for ArtBark. The account design is very similar to other highly efficient web applications such as Imgur, where users do not need to register an account in order to share a photo; rather, content is shared through unique URLs. In our final user evaluations, most of the users appreciated the straightforward and no-nonsense security model.

Login page

The login page was designed to be very simple and straightforward. In our user testing and heuristic evaluations, a number of users reported being confused by the multiple login options we had provided (we had originally given users the option of viewing existing art by personally inputting their email address and the art name, as well as the option of uploading new art). As a result, we chose to present only the most basic login option at the login page. Existing artists and reviewers are only able to access existing works through personalized URLs. Image Added

As described, once the artist has finished uploading his/her art, he/she is presented with links for each group that will be viewing the art. Image Added
When a reviewer navigates to one of the aforementioned login URLs, he/she will be presented with a customized interface that minimizes confusion. As shown below, a reviewer only sees the single option of viewing the specified work of art. Logging in will take the reviewer to the reviewer interface. Image Added
If an artist navigates to the URL for his/her uploaded work, he/she will immediately be taken to the artist interface.

Upload Interface

The artist who wants feedback on their art must first submit that art to our system.  After logging in and indicating that they are going to upload some art, they are taken to the upload page.  The upload page features two ways to upload an image: drag and drop, and an upload button.  Either way, after optionally giving their art a title and watching an image upload status bar, they are whisked away from the upload page to the Review Group Privacy Setup page. Image AddedSetUp - Identification:
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Setup - Upload art:

Setup - Group Privacy
(uses drag and drop)

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