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M8 UI Evaluation
Requirements:
You are responsible for turning in two separate reports:
Report 1: 70 points
- (10 points) Clearly identify the team whose prototype you evaluated and provide a one-page description of your evaluation plan and the rationale behind the plan, i.e., why you chose to conduct that evaluation on this prototype.
- (30 points) Results of execution of usability plan, providing clearly documented printed evidence that you conducted the evaluation plan correctly. For instance, this includes the actual raw data sheets and evaluator notes in addition to the synthesized data. I need to verify you did the evaluation you claimed to do.
- (30 points) 3-page usability report highlighting the three top concerns arising from the usability evaluation. The report should identify clearly what each usability concern is and the evidence you have to support this problem being a real problem that should be corrected by the design team. One copy of this part of the report goes to Bob, and one copy should be given to the team you evaluated.
Report 2: 30 points
- 3-page response of the usability report submitted to your project team. Be careful not to get defensive in this report (resist refuting that the findings of the evaluation team are incorrect). Make a clear argument for how you would address each usability concern. Assess whether the object-oriented design you developed for your prototype made it any easier to address these usability concerns.
For this milestone we chose to use a heuristic evaluation, which required us to fill out a checklist to critique the other team’s user interface. It was pretty straightforward, and we offered some improvements to their interface.
Another team critiqued our interface, and also offered suggestions. The last part of the milestone was to write a response to that report, which was also straightforward.
Things to remember:
- As stated in the assignment, don’t get personal with the response or evaluation.
- Send your code/mockups to the other team on time so they have time to look at it.
- Make sure you contact the correct team and the correct team contacts you. Originally, the wrong team sent us their UI, and if we hadn’t checked it could have been fairly confusing. Check the assignment in the wiki for the team assignments.
The files for your viewing pleasure:
usability rebuttal.doc
M8 Evaluation.doc
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