Prep for mobile user testing and demoing

[Jess Mitchell]

+1 and totally a do-able option in lieu of a functioning prototype.

This conversation is helpful -- it's bringing out the range of  
possibilities for doing early testing.  They are vast.  Let's  
coordinate.

James is running around with museums today, but perhaps he can  
coordinate a strategy for doing some early testing and can help  
coordinate Alison and Armin's work to develop tests and get Everett on  
the horn like we did with the Decapod conversation.

I know Erin has also been working on this -- anything to add Erin?


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On Aug 20, 2009, at 7:38 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:

> Good afternoon James,
>
> I think it might still be useful to do some human-screen-reader  
> testing on the wire frames (i.e. where a human is the screen- 
> reader).  This would be easily accomplishable over the phone / skype  
> and may reveal some things early on to make it easier for developers  
> not to overlook accessibility related issues.
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> On 20-Aug-09, at 5:31 PM, James William Yoon wrote:
>
>> 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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