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Formatting toolbar: A formatting toolbar appears across the top of the main page screen whenever a user is editing some body text. We made sure that the toolbar would remain across the top of the screen no matter where the user was scrolled on the page (absolute positioning). We also made sure the buttons in the toolbar acted like buttons, and would have obvious activated (pressed down), deactivated, and mouseover effects. After the heuristic evaluation, we took many of the suggestions on improving the formatting toolbar to meet the specifications of a robust toolbar. The evaluator gave us helpful feedback about the buttons affording clickability, the effects being consistent, and making sure everything was implemented correctly. We tried to bring everything up to all these specifications with our final design. 
Above: the formatting toolbar.
Above: A pressed button in the formatting toolbar.
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- Noted that design of the interface was appealing, said it was “pretty”
- Had some trouble figuring out how to create text and paragraphs - first tried clicking below the title, then pasted text into the title; eventually tried to press enter which made a new text section below, then understood that the large text section was meant to be a title
- Tried to drag an image into the page just like the previous user
- Initially copied the URL of the wikipedia page that contained an image instead of the direct url to the image
- Had kind of a tough time adjusting to the differences from other editors - just seemed a bit disoriented in generalFinished screenshot for user 2:
User 3 (
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JD, Course 2)
- Immediately discovered, upon making a new section, that pressing “tab” didn’t indent, as user had intended, but rather just scrolled the page down.
- User noted that the browser default spellcheck disappeared when you clicked out of a text section. User also suggested that we might want to implement more comprehensive automatic punctuation behavior, like automatic capitalization.
- Similar to other users, JW tried to begin a section after the title by clicking on the page beneath it (instead of pressing enter or clicking “add a text section”).
- Also, like all user testers, JW tried to drag the images into the document instead of clicking them. This clearly indicates a critical implementation flaw.
- User discovered that it’s not possible to delete pictures with “delete” or “backspace” key, only by clicking on the ‘x’.
- User noted that pressing enter doesn’t always position the new text in the right place, especially when the previous box is right above an image.
- Finally, user showed us a cool video of Kingdom Hearts, which most of his blog post was about.
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