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Low-fi Prototyping & Usability Testing Kevin Anderson Kim Brown Miles Koons Sunny Peng

Overview • Mission Statement • Tasks • Lo-fi Prototype Structure • Scenarios • Experimental Method • Experimental Results • Suggested UI Changes • Summary • Questions

Mission Statement Our mission is to create a tool which makes finding and planning events effortless so that people increase their amount of social activity.

Task 1 Find an activity Type: Simple

Task 2 Create an event Type: Complex

Task 3 Rate events Type: Moderate

Lo-fi prototype

Scenario 1 Find an event

Scenario 2 Host an Event

Scenario 3 Rate and Review an Event

Experimental method • Participants: • College students • People expressing a desire to increase amount of social activity • Environments: • Homes • Classrooms • People • Test participant • Facilitator • Observer

Experimental results • Dislikes: • Confusing terminology • Confusing buttons • Unnecessary features • Too much or too little detail • Likes: • Designed to simplify • Horizontal scrolling option for event-finding

Suggested UI changes • Choose more appropriate names and graphics for buttons • Remove unnecessary features • Minimize work for user • Only show the necessary information

Summary of talk • What we found • Testing is highly helpful in figuring out what areas of the app can be improved • What we thought was intuitive was confusing • Where we are going • Implementing research findings in a new prototype

Questions?

Low-fi Prototyping & Usability Testin g