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WordReference.com Improvement through the User-Centred Design
Usability Test
June 2012 - Irene Escude
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Usability Test
• Test types• Exploratory test• High fidelity paper prototyping. Screen testing• Tested aspects
• Components of the homepage• Logic of actions• Clarity of words and labels
• Users• 5 users, 2 men and 3 women• Ages between 20 and 60 years old• Different degrees of skills / expertise 01
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Usability Test
• Records and notes• Administrator’s notes• Users’ comments• Time used in each task• Questionnaire during the test’s execution• Post-test questionnaire
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Usability Test
• Test’s goals
• Is the design equally functional in a landscape position as well as in portrait
position?
• Do the users understand the organization of the menu and the labels?
• Is it easy to use the application to translate?
• Are the users able to differentiate between the choice of languages of the
website and of the search function?
• Is it easy to know which utilities have WR?
• Is the way the results are shown clear enough?
• Does the design facilitate the intensive use of the system?
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Usability Test
04Homepage – Landscape and Portrait view
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Usability Test
05Secondary page – Landscape and Portrait view
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Conclusions
• Problems with the design’s visibility in landscape view.
• Revision of text size and the position of links
• Improve the visibility of the system’s state
• Confusion with the icon labels
• WR Utilities: use the user language
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Conclusions
• Next steps
• Solve the detected usability problems
• Complete development. Database integration
• Inspection and testing techniques
• Implementation of the detected improvements
• Migration
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