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New Hampshire Usability Professional’s Association
January 2012 Meeting
Delivering Results: How Do You Report User Research Findings?
Jen McGinnEva KaniastyDharmesh MistryKyle SoucyCarolyn Snyder
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Introduction
About NH UPA We want to make New Hampshire a good place for user experience professionals to work and live
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Upcoming NH UPA Meetings
Tentative Date: Wednesday, February 15Tom Clancy, “Using Development Frameworks to Rapidly Prototype Applications”
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Delivering Results: How Do You Report User Research Findings?
The long, textual written report is dead, isn’t it? So how do you deliver your findings to your clients? Is it PowerPoint? An e-mail? A spreadsheet? Post-it notes? And what do you include? Positive findings? Screenshots with callouts? Just issues? Or recommendations as well? Are they prioritized?
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Panelists
If you ask our panelists, some of us have developed templates that we use and modify for each research activity, and others change the deliverable based on the activity and client. Each panelist will spend 5 minutes showing you their typical deliverables, and then we’ll open the floor for audience Q&A.
• Jen McGinn, Principal Usability Engineer, Oracle• Eva Kaniasty, Founding Principal, RedPill UX• Dharmesh Mistry, Usability Specialist, Acquia• Kyle Soucy, Founding Principal, Usable Interface• Carolyn Snyder, Founding Principal, Snyder Consulting
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Jen McGinnPrincipal Usability Engineer, Oracle
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Overview
• I present my research results via slides in 60-minute meeting (generally remote, via web conference)
• I’m going to spend 3-5 minutes walking you through the structure of one of my PowerPoint presentations
• Then I’ll summarize the take-aways
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[Product ][Method] My name, title, and date
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Executive Summary• In [When?], the [what product?] was tested by
[number and type of participants] in [method type] to evaluate the ease of use of several features including [features or use cases].
• High level findings included [usually a total of 3 to 4 bullets]:• [ 1 - 2 biggest positive findings]• [ 1 - 2 biggest positive findings]• [ 2 or 3 biggest usability issues]• [ 2 or 3 biggest usability issues]
• This presentation covers all of the findings and subsequent recommendations. 04/11/2023
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Agenda
• Goals • Tasks• Participants• Findings• Recommendations• Next Steps
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GoalsEvaluate the usability of the following features of the
U-Haul.com website:
– Are users confused about how to price a rental? A storage unit?– How do users react to the insurance options? Do they
understand the coverage?– How do users feel about the presentation of items for purchase
or for rent? – How effective is the shopping cart content? Are users confused
by when they need to pay for items?– Do users value the star ratings? U-Haul brand?– How do users feel about the targeted FAQ and search result
pages?– Does our online documentation help prevent calls to the service
center? Can they determine how to reach out to the U-Haul vendor nearest them?04/11/2023
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Tasks1. Get the price of a 1-way move across country
2. Find a specific piece of information in the FAQ
3. Determine the size and cost of a storage unit needed to hold specific items
4. Find the phone number of a U-Haul location
5. Book the truck (and insurance), adding rental items and purchased items
6. Determine insurance coverage
7. Find the U-Haul location nearest you
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Participants
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ParticipantID
Gender Age Occupation Web-savvy
U1 Male 24 Missionary Average
U2 Male 52 Small business manager Average
U3 Female 62 62 Retired. Formerly television news producer, then licensed paralegal.
Average
U4 Female 36 Housewife Average
U5 Male 31 Sales and marketing Average
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Findings
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Choosing a Truck
5/25/2011 Jen McGinn
Another issue
One participant suggested this fix
2 participants had this issue and did ‘x’ to work around it
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Goals and Questions Re-visited
• [All the same as before] Are users confused about how to price a rental? A storage unit?
• How do users react to the insurance options? Do they understand the coverage?
• How do users feel about the presentation of items for purchase or for rent?
• How effective is the shopping cart content? Are users confused by when they need to pay for items?
• Do users value the star ratings? U-Haul brand?• How do users feel about the targeted FAQ and search result
pages?• Does our online documentation help prevent calls to the
service center? Can they determine how to reach out to the U-Haul vendor nearest them?04/11/2023
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Positive Findings [these always come first]
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• All participants easily found the links to the FAQs and had no trouble finding the answer to the license question under FAQs
• All participants made use of the maps when comparing options.
• All participants did scroll down to compare prices, locations and reviews
• 4 participants valued the presence of the [higher] star ratings
• 2 participants valued U-Haul location more than the off-brand vendors
• 2 participants were pleased that the truck rental page "retained her information" -- the addresses and dates
• 2 participants appreciated the visuals of the items inside the storage units and the graphic of the person shown in the small unit icon
• 2 participants easily added the dolly, blankets and boxes during the truck rental task flow
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Recommendations
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Priority Description Recommendation Location
HighParticipants don't understand what the purchased insurance actually covers
Re-format coverage and exclusions into bulleted lists; Don't use legal jargon
Damage coverage
HighParticipants have a very hard time estimating the storage unit size that would meet their needs
Provide more user assistance
Self Storage location details page
MediumUp-sell process for items to rent or purchase is confusing
Put the purchased items into another page in the flow, and make it clearer that users can opt out.
Additional rental items, Shopping cart
MediumParticipants are concerned that the site is incorrectly calculating the mileage and therefore overcharging
Add a link to display the map, so they can check it in place
Select your preferred pickup location
Low
Participants were not sure what location the giant thumbtack/pin was (address or zip code) or how far away the locations were
Display the distance "from" the specified location, like the Self-storage results page
Select your preferred pickup location, Location
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Next Steps
• Work with [which stakeholders or teams] to prioritize changes
• Work with [stakeholders or teams] to design alternatives
• Validate that the new designs address the issues with users
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Summary
• Tell them what you’re going to tell them– Executive summary– Agenda– Goals/Questions
• Tell them – Tasks & participants (sometimes methodology)– Animated slides for progressive disclosure– Screen shots annotated with findings
• Tell them what you told them– Review goals of the research and the questions it was
intended to answer– Positive findings (go slowly here)– Prioritized opportunities for improvement
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Eva KaniastyFounding Principal, RedPill UX
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Report Formats
PPT: visually engaging but real-estate constrained (and will force you to be brief). Formatting can be time-consuming.
MS Word/Narrative: more room for context; quick, but can appear dry and boring.
3rd Option: No report.
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Deciding Factors
• Time/Budget• (Mode of) Presentation of Results• Company Culture / Industry• Stakeholder Involvement• Deliverable Shelf Life
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Reporting Findings (1)
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Reporting Findings (2)
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Dharmesh MistryUsability Specialist, Acquia
Content Management SystemOpen Source SoftwareCommunity
Products built on DrupalOpen Source/ ProprietaryStart-up
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Supporting information Detailed Information Main Report
http://drupal.org/node/1399056 http://drupal.org/node/1399258http://drupal.org/node/1289476
Stakeholder behavior
Transparency
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Main Report
Stakeholderscomments
http://drupal.org/node/1175694http://www.drupalusability.org/
Tracking
Recommendations
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Credibility
Turn around time
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Cool
Not Cool?
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Stakeholders
Turn around time
Tracking
Presenting
Provide recommendations
Thousands of Stakeholders
Weeks-Months
High, Extensive
Twitter, Conferences, Front page on Drupal.org
No, never!
3-5
Hours-day-week
Moderate-Very High
Email, Conference meetings
Sometimes
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Kyle SoucyFounding Principal, Usable Interface
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Usable Interface Formal Usability Testing/Research Report
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Executive Summary
3-4
Positive Findings
3-4
Negative Findings
When, What, Who, Where,
and Why Statement
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Findings: Severity Ratings
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Findings
Major Usability Problem
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Findings: Recommendations
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Presenting Findings…
Finding: All of the participants were disoriented after clicking the “View in 3D” button on the quote.
Recommendations:
• The navigation tabs should not disappear in the 3D view.
• If the page needs to be reloaded than the orientation should remain the same and not take the user back to the top of the screen.
• If possible, the “View in 3D” button should download the ActiveX plug-in.
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Highlight Video
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Observer Debrief Notes
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Carolyn SnyderFounding Principal, Snyder Consulting
• There is no one “best” format• Do what works for the client, culture,
circumstances• Steal good ideas, drop losers
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Text Report: “I’m not dead yet!”
Finding
Severity rating
Explanation of issue
Supporting observations from notes
Recommendations
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PowerPoint with “report” in Notes Field
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PowerPoint, Screen Shots with Callouts
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Some people saw this as a bar graph, but others did not. One person read only [first 4 words]
Most people read this text; everyone drilled into [noun]
People seemed to understand the stacked bar graphs,
Amount isn’t explicit. The user must do the math.
Can’t explore [action]. People knew it was important.
Why just show [scenario]? Some misinterpreted it as “worst case scenario.”
People liked suggestions, but wanted concrete, prioritized advice. Order can imply priority.
Not clear why it showed [2 variations of graph]
People understood the purpose
Interest in theseInterest in these links
Important sentence buried in paragraph
Ambiguous
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Sometimes the best report is…
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Questions
1. Do you change your delivery of usability results depending on your role as a internal/external consultant or as a company employee?
2. How important are positive vs. negative findings?
3. How have your reports changed over the years? Is there anything you do differently than when you first started writing them?
4. How do you categorize the findings in your reports? For example, do you categorize them by the page/screen, by the step in a certain process (e.g. checkout process), or by the task?
5. Lean UX is a trending topic. Have you had experience with Lean UX or Agile methods, and had to change the way you conduct research and deliver results?
6. What guidelines do you follow when writing recommendations or proposed solutions to problems?
7. Do you decide ahead of time how long a report should be and make an effort to keep it that length? If so, what dictates the length?
8. If you think a report is too long and needs to be trimmed down, how do you decide what to cut out?
9. What part of a report is the hardest for you to write?