Prep for mobile user testing and demoing

[James William Yoon]

It'd be awesome if we could do some early accessibility testing on the
mobile app, but this is really dependent on when the developers have a
functional prototype of the app.

In the interim, we were going to do a cheap faux-functionality
wireframes-in-screen test, where the user wouldn't actually be looking
at text, but rather a mock image of the text (and of the screen
overall). It's unfortunate, but it really is a cheap, fast, and
effective option, albeit with the drawback that we can't do screen
reader testing on it.

Cheers,
James

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Alison
Benjamin<alison.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The mobile app looks like a lot of fun to use :o)
>
> I think we should take advantage of the iPhone's screen reader and do
> UX testing with respect to this early on. I'm not deeply familiar with
> the design priorities for McCord but I think this will affect how
> generalizable the app is.
>
> Thanks,
> Alison
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:03 PM, James William
> Yoon<james.yoon at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> Just an update on what we're up to in terms of mobile design. We're
>> still building new screens, revising old ones, creating variations of
>> existing ones, and getting feedback and direction from Hugues
>> (McCord), Nicole (McCord), Nancy (SI American Art), and Titus
>> (Experius). One of our next steps is to start doing some user testing
>> of the wireframes.
>>
>> In preparation for doing some of that user testing and demoing, we
>> have a couple of tasks ahead of us:
>>
>> 1. Write up the user testing protocol: Erin's been working on writing
>> up a testing protocol for our wireframes. They can found here:
>> http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Mobile+user+testing+protocol
>> ; comments, revisions are very welcome as usual!
>>
>> 2. Set up the testing platform: we're planning to use
>> wireframes-in-screen testing to give faux-functionality, a la recent
>> publication by Bolchini (http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1263).
>> In a nutshell, we'll have images of the wireframes on the mobile
>> device, with clickable hot spots which transition the user to the next
>> appropriate screen (=  image = wireframe). Jacob's helping us maintain
>> a sense of the mobile experience by using the screen navigator to get
>> that sliding screen transition effect between screens.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James
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