GR3 - Paper Prototyping
Prototype photos
Prototype 1:
Briefing
Campus Connect is a website that helps high school students get more detailed and accurate information about the colleges they are considering through reviews, ratings, photos and videos posted by students currently at the university. High school students can also post questions to ask for specific information they can't find anywhere on the website.
Today we'll be testing our design and we need your help to find the problems with it! We have some small tasks for your to complete written on index cards. Think out loud as you're completing the tasks so that we can understand your thought process. Also keep in mind, that we're testing our application, not you! If you are ok with it we will be also be filming you go through the tasks to help us remember what happened, but don't worry it will be completely confidential.
I'm Gaia and I'll giving you the tasks one at a time. You can "click" anywhere on the paper as though it were a computer screen. I will be changing the papers and moving things around, pretending to be the computer. This is Grafton, and he'll be writing down some notes about the test. Finally this is Kimberly, and she'll be filming.
Scenario Tasks
1. You are a high school student applying to Yale, and you're interested in finding out what the student center looks like.
2. You want to know what the current students think about the party life at Yale.
3. You are very interested in knowing how many Hispanic groups and organizations there are on campus. You already looked through the reviews and you didn't find anything related to this topic, however you really want to know the answer to your question.
Observations
Prototype 1:
- Some people were confused about the difference between the "Reviews" tab and the "Forum" tab.
- User #2 said that she liked how the photos panel resembled the one on Facebook. However she said ours was better since it shows previews of photos below the main one.
- User #1 commented that the differences between "culture" and "diversity" in the word cloud was confusing
- Some users tried to click on the ratings to find our more about that specific topic (for example parties)
- User #2 said it was fun to have the word cloud to show the frequency of topics, however she pointed out that the greater the number of topics, the hard it is to find the one you are looking for.