Project Log

This week we conducted the usability testing.  Zach made changes to the documentation after our peer editing was completed.  However, in the testing we at first gave people the original draft.  It worked out well in the end because we had about half the users use the old documentation and half the new.  This allowed us to compare whether or not our changes made a difference.  The testing was very successful we got some great compliments and also some constructive criticism on the product.

Attended user testing at Will's place. Will be writing appendix and doing final work on the documentation this weekend.

Worked with group on user surveys, independently researched Linux.

Attended one meeting. Went over storyboard ideas and PowerPoint with Will.

Attended meetings and did proofreading.

I acted as record keeper for the user testing we conducted. We had 8 people arrive for the user testing and they began the tutorial as Doug installed the program and the video tutorial on their computers. As each person began I recorded their starting time and walked around noting any issues i saw. Most notably were issuse with the program itself and not our tutorial, but as such showed us that our tutorial could do better to help the user with these basic issues.

Our group has finished our usability testing.  Our documentation has been edited.  I have written the first part of our usability report (background).  All that is left is the analysis of the usability test.  The only problems we found were that we needed to explain better how to apply the nail polish.

-Who:  Ansbaugh, Davitt, Kreul, Simpson

-When:  Wednesday, 4/29/09

-Where:  ENGL421 classroom

-Goal:  finalize plans for Documentation completion

-Topics discussed:  Usability Study Report, Documentation changes, extra credit option

I worked with all other group members on performing user testing. Samhita and I will meet this weekend to finalize the user documentation and write the appendix for user testing.