Goals:
-Evaluate the user interface of another team's (in our case, the "Orange
Iguanas") Oregon Trail game.
-Respond to another team's (in our case, team "Maybe We Shouldn’t Do This Assignment") evaluation of our user interface for our Oregon Trail game.
How We Accomplished Those Goals:
-This milestone was unique in that we were largely focused on the work of
another team. Our evaluation of their interface is separated into the 2 .pdf documents below:
Evaluation Methodology
Usability Report
-The interface that these reports are evaluating is the interface of the fearsome Orange Iguanas. Pictures of their interface are below:
-While we were busy evaluating the Orange Iguanas' interface, team Maybe We
Shouldn’t Do This Assignment was thinking that maybe they should
evaluate our interface..and that's precisely what they ended up doing. And as
required, we constructed a response to their criticisms, which is linked below.
Images of our interface are given beneath the link:
Evaluation Response
-We received a 95 on M8. One of the comments that the TA made was that our "think-aloud" approach (described at the beginning of pg. 2 of Evaluation Methodology) was incorrect because we used members from our own team instead of solely non-team members. While it's debatable as to if this really matters in relationship to judging an interface, it was still the wrong methodology for conducting a think-aloud approach. But hey, I will take a 95 any day!
Advice:
-Not much to say here..just don't mess up on think aloud like we did. Other than
that, just do an honest, descript evaluation and report and you should be good
to go. Menfinity-- We. Are. Forever. Men.