testing your critiquing skills: get ready preview
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This is a short presentation to help attendees of the UIE Virtual Seminar, Testing Your Critiquing Skills, prepare their critiques. For more information, see http://uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/critiquesTRANSCRIPT
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Testing Your Critiquing Skills
The “Get Ready!” Preview
Jared M. SpoolUser Interface Engineering
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Testing Your Critiquing Skills: Site Navigation
UIE Virtual Seminar
September 24, 2008
Details at http://uie.com/events
We’ll discuss the techniques for critiquing
You’ll critique the same sites and we’ll compare notes
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Sites We Selected for the Critique:Site Navigation
www.NASA.govwww. MSH.orgwww. HAPonline.orgwww. HSN.com
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NASAwww.nasa.gov
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Critique Assignment:www.NASA.gov
Their audience focuses on ‘news of the day’ and multimedia
They are hoping to reach more 18 - 24 year olds
“We want to make ourselves relevant to young people.”
Critique areas:
10 icons for major functions
Multimedia functionality
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Critique Assignment: www.NASA.gov
Areas of interest:
The 10 buttons on the home page
The way people find multimedia on the site
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Management Sciences for
Healthwww.msh.org
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Critique Assignment:www.msh.org
Their audience is USAID administrators and the field project managers
Many users have slow connectionsSite is their only marketing channel
Recently redesigned siteIncluded adding a new CMS
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Critique Assignment:www.msh.org
Is the content on the site organized the best way for project managers to get what they need?
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The Hospital &
Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
www.haponline.gov
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Critique Assignment:www.haponline.org
Their audience is hospital executives and administrators in Pennsylvania
Planning a redesign of the siteConducted survey of users
Users are happy with current design
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Critique Assignment:www.haponline.org
Users are not finding the Resource Center content or the Member Directory
Site is going to be redesignedWhat should they be considering in that effort?
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Home Shopping Network
www.hsn.com
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Critique Assignment:www.hsn.com
Their audience is primarily people who watch the home shopping network
Just completed a redesign of the site
Many people come to see something recently featured on the network
Many search queries are product numbers from the TV
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Critique Assignment:www.hsn.com
What should they do with the View All categories?
They haven’t tested shoppers who come from the TV directly
How might the design change to meet that audience’s need?
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Preparing Your Critique
Play with one or more of the sites for 15-30 minutes each
Write up the major critique points
What would you tell the designers, if you had 15 minutes to present your findings?
Bring your critique points to the 9/24 UIE Virtual Seminar
We’ll compare what you found with what we’ve found
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Testing Your Critiquing Skills
September 24, 2008
Jared M. Spool
www.uie.com/events