© simeon keates 2009 usability with project lecture 15 – 04/11/09 dr. simeon keates

© Simeon Keates 2009

Usability with ProjectLecture 15 – 04/11/09Dr. Simeon Keates


Exercise

On Wednesday(-ish) you performed a pilot study

Today, make any changes you identified to your usability protocol

Also, make any changes to your web-site based on the feedback that you obtained

Please mail your finalised protocols to Anne, Susanne and me


Final reports and presentations

You have to produce 3 things: 1 – Formal project report• 10 page ACM conference publication format• http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform/

2 – “Glossy” report selling the site• Show the board why this is a good design• e.g. Why users would want to come to the site and trust it

3 – Group presentation• Explain your reports• Highlight the findings that you think are particularly important


Glossy report

No particular structure “Sell” your site to your client Explain aesthetic choices, etc. Cover anything you want to draw attention to that is not in your formal

report Screenshots!


Formal report

This is a project report, not a usability report Structure your report like a scientific report (see earlier lecture notes) The aim of the report is to show that:• You know what factors affect the usability and accessibility of a web-site• You set up appropriate experiments to inform your re-design process• You can explain and justify all design decisions made• You can identify and recommend potential improvements to your site


Example formal report structure

Abstract • Executive summary of the report

Introduction• What you are writing about and why• What research questions you are asking (ideally posited as hypothesis)• Example hypothesis: The revised site offers faster task completion times

than the original site• Example hypothesis: The revised site is more accessible [define this!] than

the original site

Background• Talk about the design of the original site• Why did you design the site the way that you did?



Method• Describe each of the experiments that you performed on your site • Examples: Heuristic analysis, pilot study, exclusion analysis, accessibility

checkers, personas, etc.• Describe how you did each of these (e.g. describe the users, etc.)• Describe your final “verification” user trials• Include user profiles (ages, etc.)

Results• Describe the results and observations from your user trials• What data did you collect?

• Quantitative and qualitative



Discussion• What did you learn from the user trials?• Did the data you collected help you answer the research questions that you

posed? • [Note: they should have done]

Conclusions• Did the usability and accessibility of the site improve?• Did the different experiments that you performed help improve the design of

your site?



Further work• Are there further studies you would like to perform on your site?• What further changes would you make to the design of your site based on

your user trials?• Explain and justify your answers to these questions

References• Enough, but not too many!


Exercise


Exercise

More time on your project…

Guest lecture on Friday!!!

© simeon keates 2009 usability with project lecture 15 – 04/11/09 dr. simeon keates

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