I sent two additional users through discovery cycle 1 on Friday afternoon. The four initial tests can be found here.
User #5 through these scenarios
Hereās the video, and my notes:
Step two notes ā Log in
No problems.
Step two notes ā Explain what you see
No problems.
Step Three notes ā Preview your blog
Found it after a bit of trial and error
Step Four notes ā Change your background color
5:20 ā Yay! She was able to use the color picker.
Step Five notes ā Change your site title
5:55 ā No problems.
Step Six notes ā Add your first post
6:42 ā No problems. Used the ā+ newā menu
Step Seven notes ā Preview your new post
No problems.
Step Eight notes ā Publish an image
9:40 ā No problems ā Another instance of a user literally copying and pasting the image into the visual editor.
Recap
Quickest user test so far. By far. Yay!!!!
User #6 through these scenarios
Hereās the video, and my notes:
Step two notes ā Log in
- Takes 2 times to log in, but no problems.
- She seeās the big IE is out of date notice.
- 2:20 ā āItās a little distractingā, referring to dashboard in general.
Step two notes ā Explain what you see
No problems.
Step Three notes ā Preview your blog
No problems. Clicked link in welcome screen.
Step Four notes ā Change your background color
- 3:30 ā hunting and pecking through left nav
- 5:00 ā tries using color picker (which semi-works in IE7/8?), she selects a color from the right hue slider, but it doesnāt update the color. š
- 5:50 ā comes back a second time, and only seeās hex text box ā user gives up.
Step Five notes ā Change your site title
- 6:30 ā User ends up in Appearance -> header The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitorās opinion about your content and you/ your organizationās brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. (this is about the 3rd user out of 6 that have tried it here). Note: we need to add a link on this page.
- 7:40 ā Still trying to find it in appearance -> header
- 8:24 ā Finds it in settings -> general
Step Six notes ā Add your first post
9:30 ā IE7/8? woes adding title in āAdd new postā
Step Seven notes ā Preview your new post
No problems.
Step Eight notes ā Publish an image
No problems.
Recap
- So weāve still got problems with the color picker. I think itās slightly unfair to judge this too critically since the user is using IE7, or 8?
- Iām going to work up a quick patch to add a link to edit the users site title from the appearance -> header page.
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