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Design Notebook Entry for D5
Continue working on completing your paper prototype. Your prototype can have some high-level content, but should still look and feel like a sketch or a
wireframe, i.e., roughly drawn and has minimal colors. Include screenshots of your paper prototype in the design notebook, and detailed description of the screenshots in the captions.
P8: Plan for Paper Prototype Evaluation
During the next studio class, you will be conducting 3 rounds of evaluation with your paper prototype (20-25 minutes each). There are 5 parts to this planning process:
- Come up with a test plan. As a team, choose 3 major tasks that your team want to evaluate. Explain why you choose these tasks. The prototype should be complete enough to "run" a new user through each task.
- Create a script of instructions for the facilitator, wizard, participants. For the facilitator, write down a list of questions that the facilitator may ask the user during an evaluation session. For the wizard, outline the list of user actions and the appropriate system responses for each action. For the participants, write down the list of tasks they will be asked to perform and some instructions that will explain to them what they will be doing during the paper prototype evaluation session (e.g., think aloud, etc) and why.
- Write down the general procedure that the wizard should follow to properly respond to input from a participant. For example, what should the wizard do if the participant does something unexpected? How long should the wizard wait in silence without offering help, when a user is stuck at a particular step, unable to proceed?
- Assign 2 people from your team to conduct the evaluation. Decide on the role(s) each person will take during the evaluation - facilitator, wizard and/or observer. Students who are not conducting the evaluation must serve as testers for other teams, or observers (i.e., note takers) for their own team.
- Run a mock evaluation within the team. Make sure you can complete the evaluation within 20-25 minutes. Write down your observations and any changes you made to your paper prototype or evaluation procedure.
Include a writeup in the design notebook to describe the 5 parts of the planning process. Bring your paper prototype and scripts to class next week for the evaluation.
CH1: Challenge Report - Notes
The challenge report, due in week 8, documents how your team has challenged your assumptions each week. To build up to that, record some notes about how you have challenged your assumptions this week. Be specific, and describe the concrete actions your team took to test assumptions. Complete the CH1 section of the design notebook.
