Project 1 - Finding courses at UC Irvine Extension

Deeksha Malhotra

Liana Nakamura

James Rose

Project 1

Conducting usability study

Subjects are asked to sign in at UCI Extension website

Locate the courses for which they had registered

Studying navigation issues only (not content)

Usability Issues

Examining usability issues encountered while trying to locate class website:– Intuitive navigation– Overall clarity– Precise text-presentation– Advance Information

Initial Impressions

Cluttered with many links– Links at top, left/right hand columns, center

Redundancy

Advance Information

Links should clearly indicate destination

Initial Impressions

Cluttered with many links

Redundancy– Links repeated several times

Advance Information

Links should clearly indicate destination

Initial Impressions

Cluttered with many links

Redundancy

Advance Information– Links should indicate that they are links

Links should clearly indicate destination

Initial Impressions

Cluttered with many links

Redundancy

Advance Information

Links should clearly indicate destination– “Courses” links don’t go to the user’s courses

Purpose of Usability Studies

See if our initial impressions are true

Find any other HCI issues that arise while users navigate from the login screen to their online classes

Find how users can avoid these issues

Methods to finding the answer

As stated in our project description, we will be doing the following:

Find a participant who is between the ages of 35-55, lives locally, and is well-educated. At the moment, we are planning to have a total of 3 participants.

Ask him/her to sign into the UCI Extension website (extension.uci.edu) and look for the courses we specify (the courses that us group members are registered for).

Have our user think aloud so that we may record his/her navigation and analyze it later.

4 Phases

User testing Analysis of user’s comments and

recommendations for changes Implementation of changes in the form of a

mockup Re-evaluation

Questions

Before the project– Can you find the specified class on the UCI

Extension website?

After the project– How easy or difficult did you find it to find the

class?– Are there any obvious changes you would

recommend for the website?

Contacting Users

We will contact people who fit into the desired age group such as friends, parents, and friend’s parents

We will contact our participants either by phone or email.

Our group will meet the participants at a place of their convenience.

The meeting will last about 20 minutes (5 minutes to explain the project, 10 minutes for the user to find the classes, and 5 minutes for a follow-up).

Since we have a re-evaluation phase, we will need two meetings per participant. Therefore, the total time needed from our participants is 40 minutes.

Tentative Schedule

Any Questions?

Thank You for your time!