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Tasks:
Register and pay
Browse the speakers and “hire” them
Make application to speak
Usability Test Video Recoring
Video summary and suggestions:
Overall look and feel – outdated
Fainting women on the top, doesn’t give the right impression
Better use one good photo of a women speaker than a bunch of not so good photos
Logo is ok, could be cleaner
Logo should link to home page
Login area is wasting a really good “real-estate”, should be moved down
It’s hard to find the most important task “join” or “register”, should be on the right on top
The “membership” link doesn’t look like a link
Links to special offers don’t look like links, and [...] read more »
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This live usability testing took place at the CMS Expo, Usability Testing Workshop.
Task: Buy JomSocial
Scenario:You decided to have instant community solution, go to jomsocial.com find the various versions, and buy it.
Usability Testing Notes:
Can’t find the different versions
Can’t see anything that will help him compare it to other products
The Video Testimonial banner is very distracting
1.6 version is not clickable
What version does he need if he doesn’t have Joomla? What does he do if he wants it for a different platform
Linux website on showcase list confuses tester
Can’t find the word “Version”
Store – a retailer? A shrink wrap product?
Can’t choose a version
Thinks [...] read more »
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This live usability testing took place at the CMS Expo, Usability Testing Workshop.
Task: Choose a budgeting software, ask for demo
Scenario: Your company needs a web-based budgeting software, choose a budget, find a request for information, ask for a demo.
Usability Testing Notes:
Looks like a beta site, overly simplistic
Doesn’t understand what they do
Can’t find the word “budget”
Tester is irritated
Would go to Google and find something else
Design not professional
Tester wants to see bullet points of what they are offering, plus testimonials
Can’t find where to submit information. Won’t call. May email them.
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This live usability testing took place at the CMS Expo, Usability Testing Workshop.
Task: Find an activity
Scenario: It’s a rainy day, you want to do something with your children. Find an activity at the museum
Usability Testing Notes:
Can’t find activities, just events
Doesn’t know if she can show up or needs to sign up
Doesn’t know the price
She can’t find any details signing up or price
Found the price, still can’t tell if she needs to sign up
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scoreateetime.com is a new exciting service for golfers. It allows golfers to find tee-times available in their area. The guys from scoreateetime.com are very serious about usability and asked me to perform usability testing on their beta site. This is the second round of testing, the first one remains private.
Tasks:
What are the benefits of creating a profile?
Create a profile
Logout of your profile
You recently moved to Manitoba, and would like to find some information on the golf courses that are available in your area that are listed on ScoreATeeTime.com:
Find Selkirk Golf & Country Club
Locate the Course Description
Locate and go to Selkirk’s [...] read more »
Posted in Joomla by merav | 6,040 views | 1 Comment
Tags: joomla templates
Morph is a new and revolutionary template from JoomlaJunkie.com. It’s the first template I’ve seen that includes a component!
I had the pleasure of meeting founder Chris Rault at the 2008 CMS Expo. He is a very bright guy with some fantastic ideas for Joomla, and he’s determined to change the way we see and use Joomla templates. Chris asked me to perform usability testing on Morph BETA and I was very excited to do so.
I didn’t read any of the template’s documentations because I wanted my experience to be “fresh.”
That led to one unpleasant surprise. In this limited beta version, [...] read more »
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A few months ago, Scott from TheMediationMind.com has asked me to perform Usability Testing on his site, and back then I found some major problems and the look and feel wasn’t quite there yet. Since then the site has improved dramatically but there are still some tweaks that need to be made.
Here are the 3 tasks Scott has asked me to perform:
Sign up to trial and then login and listen to meditation
Get to sonia choquettes page and listen to an audio and make it to the signup page for one of her events
Search for law of attraction and attempt to [...] read more »
Posted in Joomla by merav | 27,197 views | 6 Comments
Tags: jomsocial
I am a huge JomSocial fan. I use it all the time and enjoy almost every minute. But like any website and application JomSocial’s usability too has room for improvement. The mistakes aren’t huge but they are easily fixed.
There are empty fields on the profile page. Empty fields on the front end is neither attractive nor necessary. It’s best to show only the populated fields.
My links appear on other people’s profiles. If I am logged in and looking at someone’s profile, all my tabs appear at the top of the page. But it makes little sense to mix my stuff [...] read more »
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WorldFriends.tv is a social/dating site mainly for the Asian community. Founder Dominic has asked me to test the following 4 tasks:
Tasks:
Register (for free).
Upload photo
Purchase a paid subscription.
Invite their friends to register (for free) using the Invite feature.
Watch the usability test video
Video summary and suggestions:
Register
The logo should have a .tv in case they forget.
The most obvious thing is the “register” button, that’s good.
It’s telling me that there is an error before I even have a chance to enter the password/email verification
Maybe the most popular countries should be on top (Japan and USA)
Privacy and terms should not take to a new [...] read more »
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Tags: jomsocial
JomSocial is a new exciting Joomla extension. Up until now we had to work with Community Builder which is buggy, hard to use and can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to fix (trust me, I’ve done that). From first look at JomSocial, it appears that it’s a HUGE quantum leap from Community Builder, starting from how easy it is to use (without reading the manual!), to the way the profile looks on the front end.
It still has some minor bugs and even more minor usability issues, but over all it’s a great start!This is certainly one of the best [...] read more »
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