Project Log

I created the first draft of the user documentation. I worked with Cole and Samhita on user surveys. This was really a week where the document was finalized, nothing much else occurred.

4/26/09

Finished up documentation website for usability test.

Fixed errors as suggested by peer review.

Edited visuals on website.

Added video link to site.

Yesterday I edited the documentation for the user study, which was held last night at 7.  I made a few formatting changes based on the feedback we received from the peer review and added a few "helpful hints".  Today I brainstormed some ideas that will make the tutorial more useful to the general user population and thought of some ways to adapt our documentation based on the feedback from our user study.

We're doing our testing tonight, and we got back our whitepaper.  We did well.  Testing is all set up and the forms and things are almost perfected.  We've got to brush up the last parts of the documentation.  Very tired.

-Who:  Ansbaugh, Davitt, Kreul, Simpson

-When:  Monday, 4/27/09

-Where:  ENGL421 classroom

-Goal:  finalize arrangements for usability study

-Topics discussed:  documents to be printed, exact plans for time with our test users

-Decisions made:  6 copies of Documentation printed; 6 copies of pre survey printed with space for our observations and post interviews

Finished up usability testing late last week. Noted some concerns and discontinuity between parts written by different people. Need to change directions to use the demo of the Pro version, not the demo since it doesn't include features other people needed to write about.

Installation and setup sections need more detail and explination.

Week 1: Decided on idea, downloaded and experimented with the DVDFab program.

Week 2: Wrote my part of the documentation, included lots of screenshots and pictures so even the most basic user could figure it out.

This weekend we completed the user testing. Overall it went well. We will complete the testing report sometime this week as well as tweak our final documentation.

We are progressing on pace for this project.

Our usability testing is complete, and we discovered that our steps along with the pictures were easy to follow, and in some cases the subjects claimed that the steps were over-simplified. However, they wouldn't have known how to operate the program functions as quickly without our documentation.

*cat noises*