WordReference.com Improvement through the User-Centred Design

Usability Test

June 2012 - Irene Escude

Usability Test

• Test types• Exploratory test• High fidelity paper prototyping. Screen testing• Tested aspects

• Components of the homepage• Logic of actions• Clarity of words and labels

• Users• 5 users, 2 men and 3 women• Ages between 20 and 60 years old• Different degrees of skills / expertise 01

Usability Test

• Records and notes• Administrator’s notes• Users’ comments• Time used in each task• Questionnaire during the test’s execution• Post-test questionnaire

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Usability Test

• Test’s goals

• Is the design equally functional in a landscape position as well as in portrait

position?

• Do the users understand the organization of the menu and the labels?

• Is it easy to use the application to translate?

• Are the users able to differentiate between the choice of languages of the

website and of the search function?

• Is it easy to know which utilities have WR?

• Is the way the results are shown clear enough?

• Does the design facilitate the intensive use of the system?

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Usability Test

04Homepage – Landscape and Portrait view

Usability Test

05Secondary page – Landscape and Portrait view

Conclusions

• Problems with the design’s visibility in landscape view.

• Revision of text size and the position of links

• Improve the visibility of the system’s state

• Confusion with the icon labels

• WR Utilities: use the user language

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Conclusions

• Next steps

• Solve the detected usability problems

• Complete development. Database integration

• Inspection and testing techniques

• Implementation of the detected improvements

• Migration

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Thanks