Title: Ran another user through Discovery Cycle 1 this…
Author: Dave Martin (lessbloat)
Published: October 2, 2012

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lessbloat/) [Dave Martin (lessbloat)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lessbloat/)
5:37 pm _on_ October 2, 2012     
Tags: [discovery-cycle-1 ( 8 )](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/discovery-cycle-1/),
[user-testing ( 19 )](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/user-testing/)   

# Ran another user through Discovery Cycle 1 this…

Ran another user through [Discovery Cycle 1](https://make.wordpress.org/ui/tag/discovery-cycle-1/)
this morning.

Here’s [the video](http://wpusertesting.com/videos/DC1-7.mp4), and my notes:

**Step two notes – Log in**

No problems.

**Step two notes – Explain what you see**

No problems.

**Step Three notes – Preview your blog**

No problems.

**Step Four notes – Change your background color**

 * 3:36 – He had to play around a bit, but he figured out how to change the color
   to blue fairly quickly
 * 3:52 – He clicked the “default” button resetting the work he had done to choose
   a color.

**Step Five notes – Change your site title**

No problems.

**Step Six notes – Add your first post**

No problems.

**Step Seven notes – Preview your new post**

No problems.

**Step Eight notes – Publish an image**

 * 7:20 – Cool, he clicks into new media workflow. But unfortunately he’s looking
   to paste a URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet,
   such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org, which isn’t currently in the new media
   workflow just yet.
 * 9:05 – He discovers the “Upload/insert” link, and has no trouble adding the URL.

**Recap**

 * Overall, I’m super happy with this test. He completed everything in 10 min which
   is a great time (compared to where we started off at the beginning of the 3.5
   cycle).
 * Happy to see the first user try the new media flow, even if it didn’t work out
   for him. We’ll continue to to test new users as that section fills out.
 * 7:30 – When he entered a URL into the media uploader, it appeared to succeed 
   for a brief second, you saw a file upload happening briefly and then it disappeared(
   just a heads up [@koopersmith](https://profiles.wordpress.org/koopersmith/)).
 * Do we need to do anything about the “default” button in the color picker? Would
   be a shame if someone took a bunch of time to find just the right color, then
   lost it with a click.

[#discovery-cycle-1](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/discovery-cycle-1/), 
[#user-testing](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/user-testing/)

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 1. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/66100363deaf502bcb6a7200150bf4f3405f16f76c250b814c7d31714c1ae125?
    s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 2.  [Amy Hendrix (sabreuse)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sabreuse/)  6:16 pm _on_
    October 2, 2012
 3. Is this the first test where the color picker has passed? Hooray!
 4. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/691090f38918a05360981a204985d62e29ebfaaf6d94a2180e7bbae0954e8a48?
    s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 5.  [Matt Wiebe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mattwiebe/)  6:30 pm _on_ October 
    2, 2012
 6. >  He had to play around a bit, but he figured out how to change the color to blue
    > fairly quickly
 7. /me falls over with relief.

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