Usability Tested Mockups

OVERVIEW
For this group assignment, you will create the initial user interface designs for your chosen project and conduct usability tests (with 5-7 participants) of your in-progress designs. Please be sure to use the provided Informed Consent Materials with all participants. With regard to the mockup tool for this assignment, I would suggest Balsamiq for Google Drive Links to an external site..

The primary email contact for this assignment is Paul.

DELIVERABLES

1. Each group member’s name and contributions for this assignment
2. Two to three design scenarios (non-trivial)
3. Detailed screen mock-ups with brief textual descriptions of user actions for each scenario and representative content, est. 20-25 screens
4. Group self-assessment for design usability, usefulness, and desirability (each out of 10)
5. Appendix: List of usability test participants, with date and location information (use only pseudonyms – e.g. Interviewee A) and any background research or design references

For the self-assessment component, here is the rating scale to be used for each aspect - usability, usefulness, and desirability.

• 10/10 - Outstanding
• 09/10 - Excellent
• 08/10 - Very good
• 07/10 - Good
• 06/10 - Satisfactory
• 05/10 - Poor

Self-assessment tip: It is important to view participant feedback as just that, feedback. Participant feedback should be carefully assessed, and every design decision coming out of that feedback must be further assessed by the team for positive and negative aspects. If a design is usable by 7/7 participants it still does not mean it is an outstanding design, but rather a design that participants were able to figure it out.

Informed Consent

• Consent forms for in-person research
• Consent text for online research

Team Evaluations

• Team evaluation forms

ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES

Group Self-assessment Accuracy (bonus points)