12. Method
• Let the user execute tasks
• Let the user say what he/she thinks
• General impressions/remarks afterwards
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13. Rationale
• Think-aloud: to know what the user thinks when a
seeing a screen or trying to execute a task
• No real functionality → discover problems with
interface
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14. Who
• 6 fellow students: good knowledge of existing
technologies
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15. What
• Open the about-page
• Logging in
• Viewing suggestion made to you, open it & like it
• Viewing suggestion you made to someone else
• Creating a new suggestion
• Searching through suggestions about a certain
location
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17. Bare results
• Purpose of application not clear (n = 2)
• Functionality behind toggle-buttons not clear
(n = 3)
• Explore-tab hard to find (n = 4)
• Colors in color-rating not clear (n = 2)
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18. Interpretation
• Some users don’t know what the purpose of the app is
• Functionality of the toggle-buttons in the explore-screen isn’t
immediately clear (only after some trial-and-error)
• Color-rating of suggestions doesn’t speak for itself
• Meaning of the explore-tab isn’t clear to first-time users
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19. • Tutorial
• Brainstorming & storyboarding
• Paper prototype - Solutions
• Digital prototype
• Updated digital prototype
• Analytics
• Getting more users
• Conclusion
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20. Solutions
• Purpose of the app → logo
• Toggle-buttons in explore-screen → selection
menu
• Color-rating of suggestions → icon
• Meaning of tabs → icon + text
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21. • Tutorial
• Brainstorming & storyboarding
• Paper prototype
• Digital prototype - Test
• Updated digital prototype
• Analytics
• Getting more users
• Conclusion
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25. Who
• 9 ‘younger’ people (20-24 year): smartphone users,
students
• 1 ‘older’ person (50+): less experience with the
use of apps
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26. What
• Open the about-page
• Logging in
• Viewing suggestion made to you, open it & like it
• Viewing suggestion you made to someone else
• Creating a new suggestion
• Searching through suggestions about a certain
location
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28. Bare results
• Problems with logging in (n = 5)
• Difficulty with opening details of a suggestion
(n = 4)
• Not clear that a like is saved (n = 3)
• No ‘back’-button on the ‘add image’-page (n = 2)
• Selection menu instead of tab-bar (n = 2)
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29. Interpretation
• Not clear that first the username and password have to
entered first
• No visual acknowledgement of saving a like
• Layout-problem for opening the details of a suggestion
• No possibility to return to new suggestion without adding an
image
• Possibility to replace tab-bar by selection menu
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30. • Tutorial
• Brainstorming & storyboarding
• Paper prototype
• Digital prototype - Solutions
• Updated digital prototype
• Analytics
• Getting more users
• Conclusion
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31. • Logging in → social media-login
• Displaying a like → make like button pressed
• Lay-out overview/details → new lay-out
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Solutions
32. • Tutorial
• Brainstorming & storyboarding
• Paper prototype
• Digital prototype
• Updated digital prototype - Test
• Analytics
• Getting more users
• Conclusion
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33. Goal
• Is the Facebook-login an issue for most users ?
• Display of likes better ?
• New lay-out of suggestions clearer ?
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34. Method
• Give the app to the user (mostly via the internet)
→ no specific tasks
• As much feedback as possible via different channels
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35. Rationale
• Users use the app as they would without us being
there
• Gives an indication of how usable the app is
• If their are big issues, users will feedback those
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36. Who
• 4 fellow students
• 2 other students (20-22 year): much experience
with the use of apps
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37. Where
• Using the app on their smartphone
• Feedback via:
• blog
• in-app feedback page
• face-to-face
• Google Analytics
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39. Bare results
• Explore-functionality not clear (n = 5)
• Wrong color of login-button in IE (n = 1)
• App gets ‘stretched’ on larger screens (n = 1)
• Lay-out overview/details clear (n = 6)
• Display of likes clear (n = 6)
• Facebook-login clear (n = 6)
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40. Interpretation
• Functionality on the explore-screen is not clear to
most users
• App doesn’t scale well on big screens
• Problems concerning logging in, opening details and
the display of likes are solved
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58. Results
• 127 visitors (85% of expected 150)
• 42 new recommendations (56% of expected 75)
→ 1 recommendation per 3 visits
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59. • Tutorial
• Brainstorming & storyboarding
• Paper prototype
• Digital prototype
• Updated digital prototype
• Analytics
• Getting more users
• Conclusion
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60. Course
• Learned to think from the viewpoint of the user
• Users have a (very) different view on the app than
the developer
• Improving is only possible when testing enough
with real users
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61. Xplorer
• Enough functionality to be really tested and used
• More functionality still possible (images, ..)
• Not relevant for more users (right now)
• Not easy to get users in the wild
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