Building Your Usability Toolkit

2006 March 23
by Karen

presented by Athena Hoeppner & Meg Scharf

Affinity Mapping Projects

  • Let people organize item into groups
  • What do people think is most important?
  • Create understandable labels

How to handle affinity mapping data

  • Create spreadsheet of all the terms and their score, their catagory
  • Created mockups

Active learning affinity map project
sort slips into groups
mapping in the library lobby

If students have fun you raise the awareness of your webpage.
Took digital photo of what groups did and saved it.
Magnetic white board easle
Dots to mark what was important to them
How many times things were selected?
How many which got red dots?
Have students help recruit studentsUsability scenarios – exercises and tasks

use Camtasia/Capitivate to capture what people are doing and saying during scenario task

Use student to recruit students for the scenario. Students can also be used to conduct the testing

Reflection written after each scenario

Testing users in pairs because students often work in groups

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