| Subjects |
| |
I
once again had as subjects the parent of Avocado school children,
an Avocado teacher, and the principal of Avocado Elementary school.
In addition, I tested a potential parent of an elementary school child
(Also known as my wife). |
| Think
Aloud Tasks |
| |
Since
I was using essentially the same test subjects as before, I varied
the tasks as much as I could given the lack of depth of the site.
In addition, I was less concerned with organization of and navigation
through the site, and more interested in the aesthetics, or 'look
and feel', of the pages. As a result, the tasks were simple, and
the Post-Test Interview focused on what they liked and didn't like
about how the site looked and whether the usage was straight-forward.
The Tasks were:
- Sign
up for more information about the PTA.
- Find
out what's for lunch on Monday, December 9th.
I
also asked the subjects to think about the aesthetics of the site
and what they liked and disliked about it. |
| Summary
of Think Alouds |
| |
With
the first usability study, all participants navigated easily through
the site with no problems getting to the information requested during
the Think-Alouds. One of the suggestions from the first study was
to allow site users to access the lunch schedule, and since lunch
was only accessed from the Daily Schedule page, I placed the link
to the district lunch schedule on this page. As it turns out, this
was not an obvious place to look for lunch. Only the person who
suggested the link to the lunch menu was able to navigate successfully
to that location. The others first attempted to access this data
from the Calendar page rather than the Daily Schedule page.
Navigation
to the PTA membership information location was far more straightforward,
and none of the subjects had any trouble accessing that piece of
information.
|
| Summary
of Post-Test Interview |
| |
Users
mentioned that other then the difficulty accessing the lunch menu,
the site was easy to navigate. As mentioned before, this had more
to do with the overall simplicity and lack of depth of the site.
I
also asked subjects to think about the look of the page, and a majority
of them requested more color, especially with respect to page background.
I had swapped out the gray background that existed for my initial
usability study based on user input. But apparently a plain white
background was also unappealing. |
| Findings
to be Implemented |
| |
Based
on user input, I plan to:
- Add
a duplicate link to the lunch menu page from the Calendar page.
- Change
the background so that it includes a brighter color while not
detracting from the readability of the pages.
|
| Findings
that will not be Implemented |
| |
There
were no requests for changes that conflicted with important aspects
of the page, so both changes will be implemented. |