CSCI 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Usability Testing, Web Design, Usability
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Lecture, reading/chapter/novel/article during class, power point, movies (if need to collect info. ) Think & find some things for them to do. Keeping testing simple so you do enough of it. Notes: web design arguments waste time, preventing team from making critical decisions, some people have different opinions of what they like or dislike, all web users are unique and all. Focus groups are good for quickly getting a sampling of user"s feelings and opinions about things. Planning stages of design: usability tests are about watching one person at a time try to use something to do typical tasks so you can detect and fix the things that confuse or frustrate them. Result is actionable insights: you don"t need to find all the problems, you can find more problems in half a day than you can fix in a month, how to choose participants, recruit loosely and grade on a.