Usability Studies

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Usability Studies

• At Microsoft

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My Experiences

• Overview
• The labs
• Intro to feature studied
• Usability study

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Overview

• Conducted studies for one of the features I
  worked this summer
• New Office12 features
• Performed them myself!

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Really Simple Syndication

• Ability to subscribe to web content, and get
  notifications when it was updated
• Initially for blogs
• Popular with news sites
• Might be the next way of surfing the web

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Usability study

• Create a prototype
• Cog walk
• Prototype redesign
• Usability study
• Create participant profile
• Create scenarios
• Create working prototype
• Find participants
• Conduct study
• Make recommendations/
• revise prototype

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Observations

• 100 - found RSS Resources link on the second
  page in less than 30 seconds
• 87 - did not read the What is RSS blurb (paper
  prototype)
• 100 clicked on the XML icon (for the feed in
  their task) in less than 20 seconds

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• So you want to see
• what Office 12 looks like??

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