EVALUATION

USABILITY

and

SOCIABILITY

Heuristic User Control / Freedom Flexibility Aesthetic and Minimalist Design Efficiency Interactive Creativity Discussion Tools Mechanisms for Stimulation of

Growth/Learning Consistency, Error

Heuristic – Positive Points User Control / Freedom and Flexibility

Use of headers and drop down menus Easy to navigate around site easily

Mechanisms for Stimulation of Growth/Learning Learning very much encouraged

Nutrition, exercise, caloric intake, etc. Interactive Creativity

Multiple channels of information Written, videos, articles, stories, activities

Heuristic – Negative Points Aesthetic and Minimalist Design

NOT minimalist Information Overload / Lots of Information Also overload when you first sign up

Information and advertisements Discussion Tools

Only message boards and individual profiles User Control

Signed in unable to access homepage

Testing and Review

Heuristic Unifying Purpose and Focus Identity Construction Individual and Group Identity Construction and

Maintenance Dynamic Information and Structure Structured Information and Interaction Support Personal Preference Connections to live, offline community

activities

Heuristic – Positive Points Unifying Purpose and Focus

Purpose of health and helping Identity Construction, Individual and Group

“Spark Teams” and Individual Profiles Dynamic Information, Structure, and

Interaction Information on an array of topics Presented in array of ways (written, video,

stories, lists) Support Personal Prescence

Individual tailoring, recognition

Heuristic – Negative Points Connections to live, offline community

activities No such connections found “Spark Ann Arbor” page

Not really much there Information and Learning Focus

Healthy Lifestyle and Your Health sections more targeted than Community section

Not terrible problems to have

How often do you find connections from SparkPeople to the community in which you live?

How would you rate the level of support through other SparkPeople members regarding your health?

Considering health information versus social interaction, which do you find SparkPeople more useful for?

Seems to be moderately used as intended Well designed

Message boards are all specifically titled with topic…most threads seem to adhere to the topic listed / recommended

Some threads “veer off” Overall positive thing

Interesting, “sex as exercise, sexercise” Individual pages not necessarily high on

the content of the website

User’s SparkPages created – 742,618 SparkTeams created – 10,817 Posts – 7,955,000 Videos – 52 Exercise Videos

Team and member info difficult to find

Calories burned – 4,983,141,395 Cups of water drunk – 136,366,467 Pounds Lost – 6,241,048 Constantly Updated