User Test 3

For the user testing I conducted on the 8th of March, I used a technique called "Tree Testing". I recorded five people putting features on potential pages that they felt would be on those pages. We had different options for them to choose from and also had blank pieces of paper that they could use to add any features they thought should be included on the pages.

We discovered some minor problems with some of the options given, we used a buzz word from our app that some of the users weren't familiar with and had to explain it to them but after that they understood what was meant by it. One also asked several other questions about how the pages connect to each other and was thought it could be made clearer.

The layouts that we got back were similar to the ideas we had been contemplating but with some differences and user-added features that the users came up with. We tried having the cards laid out slightly differently so that we were not forcing the users into our way of thinking. But I think that giving them the page's hierarchy would help them understand how it would work. We had one outlier that had the app laid out as more of a social media app rather than the use we have planned for it, but it just reinforced the idea that we should include a social aspect to the app.

We also included the user created options in each of them following tests and in all cases the each tester used at least one of the previous testers ideas. We weren't sure whether or not to include the users own ideas in the following tests, to see if they would come to a similar conclusion on their own, but we did end up using them to give the testers more options and not force them into using only the ideas that we had made for them. If I were to conduct the test again, I wouldn't include the user made options to see if the other testers would make similar options as the previous tester.