Prep for mobile user testing and demoing

[Victoria Moulder]

Hi All;

Glad to see we'll be conducting human-screen-reader testing, please let us know where you'll post the findings on the wiki. It would also be great to have Everett present findings at one of our design meetings!

Best, Vicki 





----- Original Message -----
From: "James William Yoon" <james.yoon at utoronto.ca>
To: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett at zufelt.ca>
Cc: "Armin Krauss" <mackrauss at googlemail.com>, "Fluid Work" <fluid-work at fluidproject.org>
Sent: Friday, 21 August, 2009 11:22:51 GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Prep for mobile user testing and demoing

This is a fabulous idea. We'll start coordinating on our side to make it happen.

Alison, Armin maybe you could work with Erin on updating the protocols
next week. Erin and I are at the MMI the first week of September, but
if Alison and Armin are available, they could run the tests with
Everett. Otherwise, we'll go with the remote testing route.

James

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:38 PM, E.J. Zufelt<everett at zufelt.ca> 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.
> HTH,
> Everett
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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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