GR6: User Testing
Project: Pitch Perfect
Design
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Description |
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This is an overview of the home page. Two main changes occurred from our initial concept to the final version. In our original design, we had the Director's Announcements at the top of the page above the feed. From heuristic evaluations and user testing, we learned that people were confused because they thought the home feed was meant to be a response to the Director's Announcements instead of as a general feed. Therefore, we decided to move the Director's Announcements to the bottom left corner of the page. Also, the "Songs" and "People" links at the top of the page were originally found under a dropdown menu but we found that people had a hard time finding them during the Paper prototyping. |
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Users can write comments that show up on the home feed. The name of the person who commented is clickable and takes you to his profile. |
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Users can select a song to practice. During paper prototyping and user testing, we originally just had the "Choose a Song!" header by itself. People told us that they were unsure what choosing a song did so we decided to add a subtitle "Listen, Comment, Record" to make it more obvious. |
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This is an overview of the Practice section. The Practice and Record options are on either side of the sheet music. In the paper prototype, the practice options and the record options were both on the left side under different tabs. We decided to separate them into two different columns from paper prototyping since users wanted to see comments and practice options at the same time. |
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These are the options available when practicing the song. The play options were originally just checkboxes but paper prototyping and heuristic evaluation found the checkboxes to be confusing. We decided to use slider bars instead. |
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Users can record songs on the right side of the Practice page. |
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Users can see their recordings on this tab and other people's recordings on the other tab. Originally, users would have a dropdown menu that had a list of all of the recordings a user can comment on. However, user testing found that it was really inefficient to go through all the recordings to find a specific one. We decided to separate your recordings from other people's recordings. Based off of user testing, we also added a search functionality to comments from user feedback to make it easier to find comments. |
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This is the Member Directory. In the paper prototype, we had a list of members on the left sidebar. During paper prototyping, some people thought that it was not necessary to have the left sidebar since it took up a lot of space. Therefore, we decided to have a main page that displays all of the users instead. |
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This is a user profile. In the computer prototype, the list of available times/days used to just be a box that showed weekday availability. From user testing, people mentioned that having an actual calendar would be more useful so we decided to incorporate Google calendars. |
Implementation
We broke down the implementation process into three components based on the three major features of our interface: computer-generated playback of music, recordings, and comments.
Playback
Recordings
Comments
Evaluation
Briefing
We decided not to use a demo video because we did not want to influence testers unintentionally. We used a modified version of the briefing we provided for paper prototyping:
Our project's name is Pitch Perfect and we are creating a website for a cappella singers. It can be hard for an cappella singer to perfect his individual parts when singing in a musical group. Pitch Perfect will allow users to practice a cappella songs online, with an emphasis on social interactions among the group. The site allows users to practice their parts with the other voice parts in the background to simulate singing with the whole a cappella group. Members can listen to other people's recordings and make comments.
For the purpose of this test, you are an a cappella singer named Anna who wants to practice her solo for an upcoming performance. There will be 4 tasks total. Don't worry if you have no previous music experience- the tasks use very minimal music terminology. This is a relatively new computer prototype, so any problems you encounter are the computer system's fault.
Two of our group members will be observing you throughout the tasks. Your responses will be kept completely confidential and if you would like to stop at any point, just let me know. Any questions before we begin?
Tasks
Task 1
Practice singing the song "The Sign". For the play options on that page, please set the Volume to 85%, the Tempo to 130 beats/min, and include the Metronome. You may practice for as long as you would like.
Task 2
Now, make a recording of the song "The Sign". Feel free to change the play options and sing for however long you would like. After recording your singing, please save your recording as "Super Solo".
Task 3
Listen to Ben's recording of "The Sign" called "Tenor Recording". Make a comment on his recording. You can write whatever message you like.
Task 4
Check Ben's profile to see when he is available to practice.
Usability Problems