User Test 1.2

For the user testing I did on the 4th of March, I got five people to fill out the same questionnaire as last week as I wanted to see if there was any big differences between lay people or people who know how to make apps might have. I did the same thing as last time, give them a description of the app ("Pickaxe is an app used for stumbling upon hidden gems in a city"). I also clarified any queries they may have had about the questions.

The questions were:

1.       List several features you think would be in this app.

2.       List those features in order of importance.

3.       When you arrive in a city, what kind of things would you like to see/do?

4.       If you had to make an account, would you prefer to log in through Facebook or make a new account?

After they returned the completed documents back from the subjects, I put the data into a spreadsheet and recorded the results from the answers given.

The experiment took place in a familiar environment to the users, we used Discord, an app that provides voice call services (similar to Skype). The subjects were all used to using this as we would use it a lot. While in a call with them, I gave them Word documents with the questions on them to fill out. They filled them out in the call. All the subjects were not a part of multimedia and they had never made an app before. While the experiment was being completed, one of the subjects asked a question and accidentally said one of his answers. While it doesn't seem to have affected the other's answers, it may be something for me to bear in mind in future tests that in something like this could happen easily in group situations. One person did misinterpret one of the questions and some of his answers for it are not relevant to the question.

Other than that, there were no big problems, but in the call one made a joke asking what another subject had wrote for one of the questions. While he gave a joke answer back to him it, it made me think that the setting was a bit too familiar as the subjects probably wouldn't  consider a group call with friends to be overly serious.