Introduction to Web Authoring

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Introduction to Web Authoring
Ellen Cushman cushmane _at_msu.edu
Class mtg. 22
www.msu.edu/cushmane/wra210.htm www.msu.edu/cush
mane/wa2.htm
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Where we are
Note the changes in content as per 3/26
discussion

• M 3/17 assignment 4 intro, assign groups,
  brainstorm orgs.
• W 3/19 selecting organizations, problem analysis
  procedure
• M 3/24 proposal workshop
• W 3/26 web standards (proposals due 1-2 pages)
• M 3/31 designing test, planning
• W 4/2 testing and compliance, executing
• M 4/7 visual rhetoric, intro (readability (fonts
  white space), rhetoric and psych of color
  schemes)
• W 4/9 visual rhetoric, 2 (space real estate,
  eye/hand movement, information layout)
• M 4/14 Workshop usability testing (Progress
  report due 3-6 slides)
• W 4/16 Presentation workshops.
• M W 4/21- /23 Presentations on websolutions
  Reports due. 4/23

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Today in Class Next Class
Make revisions of your data collections tools as
needed Schedule and conduct your usability tests
ASAP! Begin work on visual rhetoric and site
design next class.
Test the test materials! Execute the
test! Analyze the results! Revise the test
materials!
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Recall Steps in Executing a Usability Test

• Gather our test materials
• Ready our situations (prepare the computer, dump
  the cache, go to the site)
• Have our Test Protocol set
• Invite the user to begin
• Use our data gathering tools
• Plan analysis methods

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The Protocol, 1 Tasks Preconditions

• Preconditions Sailing club main page showing
  all visited links cleared
• User may use bookmarks to collect pages, etc.
  Therefore, bookmarks file must be cleared for
  each new user.
• Have materials ready to introduce to your user.

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The Protocol, 2 Order of Events

1. Disclaimer Confidentiality
2. User reads background info out loud questions?
3. User reads scenario 1 does task 1 continue
   until all 3 tasks complete
4. Complete post-task questionnaire and metric
5. Post-test Interview
6. Thanks!

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The Protocol, 3 Me 1

• Youll need to run through your test materials
  with two people
• Me
• One other classmate
• I will analyze the form content of the test
  materials
• The user will walk through the content materials
• Treat us both as users though!

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After the test run-through

• Come together with group
• Decide which materials need revision
• Plan revisions
• Plan how real user test will run, how many times,
  when, with whom.

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Homework

• Do your user testing!
• Well have time next week to compile initial
  findings.
• Well also start work on our last analytical
  category site design.