cheap and efficient tools euroia09
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iQ Content's presentation at EuroIA Copenhagen 2009TRANSCRIPT
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Cheap and efficient tools
Engaging users in design when there is no budget and there is no time
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iQ ContentUsability | Design | Content | Analytics
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Does this sound familiar?
“We won’t be doing any user testing for this project. There is just no budget for it, and we don’t have time“
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The Holy Trinity
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Quick
Cheap Valuable
User research
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NuaMy night at the Odeon
Far far away, behind the word
mountains,
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Photos:
Upload!
What people say:
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Before After
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Quick
Cheap Valuable
User research
IMAGE MAP PROTOTYPES
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Not a single line of code required
GOOD THINGS:
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Starting from existing wireframes, an image map prototype can be built by an interaction designer in 3 to 5 hours
MORE GOOD THINGS:
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Image map prototypes provide enough interactivity to test static web pages
EVEN MORE GOOD THINGS:
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You can’t use them to test pages that require user input or move (i.e. web forms, animations, effects, transitions, etc)
BAD THINGS:
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Quick
Cheap Valuable
User research
HYBRID PROTOTYPES
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http://url.ie/2i4h
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Quick
Cheap Valuable
User research
USER TESTING
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Tests carried out in lab with 2 laptops (Windows OS), USB keyboard and mouse, monitor, webcam, microphone and Morae
STANDARD APPROACH:
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Protocol: 6 to 8 participants compensated with €60 - €70 for 1-hour tests spread along 2 days
STANDARD APPROACH:
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Tests carried out in client’s point of contact with customers (e.g. bank branch) with 2 laptops (Mac OS), USB keyboard and mouse, monitor and Silverback
INFORMAL APPROACH:
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Protocol: 15 to 20 participants compensated with €20 for 15-minute tests spread along 2 days
INFORMAL APPROACH:
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INFORMAL APPROACH GOOD THINGS:
Cheaper and faster
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STANDARD
INFORMAL
FIXED COSTS VARIABLE COSTS
€3,385 €1,700
€2,940 €140
USER TESTING WITH 7 USERS:
DAYS
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INFORMAL APPROACH BAD THINGS:
Impossible to recruit participants of a certain profile
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INFORMAL APPROACH BAD THINGS:
Participants will be already your client’s customers: you’ll learn nothing about prospective customers’ behaviour
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INFORMAL APPROACH BAD THINGS:
Tests must be short and very focused: no time for pre-test questionnaires or debriefing interviews
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THE TRICK: USE BOTH
Use the standard approach for exploration, and the informal approach for validation
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THE BENEFIT: MORE ITERATIONS
Combining the standard and informal approaches, we have squeezed one more round of user testing in our projects
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THE BENEFIT: MORE ITERATIONS
Before: 2 rounds of standard testingAfter: 1 round of standard testing, 2 rounds of informal testing
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Our initial assumption
Testing IA = Card sorting
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Donna Spencer:
Card sorting is a “tool that helps us understand people we are designing for”
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Testing IA = Card sorting
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Piece 1: Identify key user tasks
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Piece 2 - carefully craft wording
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Piece 3: image map prototypes x 2
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The tests - Round 1 12 users 2 days initially tested the live site as well rotated which version was served first
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Key insights
Visible second level nav was critical Home link very useful Terminology, like “plans & costs” vs. “plans & services”
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Round 2 Validate new IA Focus on new and existing page designs Just 5 users this time
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What did the prototypes do for us?
Ease of prototyping allowed us to quickly adapt to completely new test plan
Shrunk distance between testing artefact and the real thing
Made us confident in our result