P stands for Payton. U stands for User
P: You’re not being tested personally we’re just seeing how well
the site perform.
P: WE are not the designers so feel free to speak your mind
so we encourage you to think out loud.
P: I’m going to show you the home page. So if you could just
tell us about what you see and what you know about the website the focus of the
site
U: It looks really nice and clean. I like the colors. It’s
about trading swipes for university insights. And I may not know right off the
bat what that is. What university
insights is and who I am trading for but I know that I should log in or register because it it my
first time on the sight
P: so where should you start to do that
U: the username and password box if I were logging in or
register the new user button
P: So what would you do
U: register a new user if I were new or enter my username
and password if I were already a user
P: so the log in would take you here. And if you could just
tell me what you would do if you were presented with this page.
U: well obviously it wants you to create a profile. So I
would click on edit profile. And I would assume it would allow me to edit the
profile information that is listed on the page.
P: What do you think that you would do after you were done
editing your profile
U: well I see recent posts is down at the bottom. So I would
probably scroll through there and see what I’m supposed to be doing
P: and what would you expect to find in recent posts?
U: recent posts about I assume trading swipes for insights
or whatever is going on on the site
P: what do you think these icons at the top are? What would
happen if you clicked each button
U: the first one looks like a picture . I assume that would
be my picture and would take me to my
profile. Then next one looks like an email button or a message button. I assume
that would send an email to someone or send a post or send a message out
somewhere. The last one looks like a logout button so I assume that that button
would log you out of the site once your done.
P: So this would actually open up to the main page. Once you logged in, it
would go into this page after you were done creating your profile. So could you
lead me through your thought process once you got on this page.
U: “I’m kind of
blind” (?)
P: If you were a student and were looking to learn something
about the university and you want to post on here., how would you navigate
through this page?
U: it looks like there would be multiple messages or posts.
So I would scroll through these if I didn’t know what I was looking for.
Otherwise, if I did have a better idea
of what I am looking for, I would click on these filters which I would assume
would bring up criteria for searching. If I found one that was interesting, I
would click responds. SO I might do that next.
P: So if you did respond,
how do you think you would get to this page (messages?)
U: umm maybe through your profile? ?? I guess… or .. yeah I
guess through your profile or after you respond if it takes you here if they
respond to you.
P: what are the different things you could do with this
page?
U: well first I would check my inbox, because it looks like
I have 2 messages. Or some sort of
activity going on there. So I’d probably click on those and see what was going
on and how I would respond to those. I assume they are personal messages. It
kind of looks like a basic email setup or IM or FB posts kind of thing.
P: We’ve gone through all of our website, can you speak
about the layout of the web site, or how you would get to different things or
how it would make best sense to you and
the branding as well.
U: I think the branding looks really good. It looks really
clean. It’s easy to navigate. Umm going through the pages I think was pretty
easy. It’s set up like basic messaging which is really easy to use. And I think
if it was functioning it’d be even easier to use so I think that’s just the
limitations of wireframes. Yeah I thought it was overall pretty easy to
navigate. Maybe like this page. I’m not
sure entirely if I would definitely go through my profile. I would feel more
comfortable if there were some sort of navigation to get to my inbox or these
features. I might figure it out but it might take one or two extra clicks.
