Gutenberg Usability Testing at WordCamp Europe

This year, there will be a usability testing table at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Europe for GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/, similar to the past one at WordCamp US. I’m looking for as many volunteers as I can find to help run tests at WCEU or process the tests remotely after the conference.

Get involved running tests

Tests will run for 30-minute blocks over the course of the WordCamp. To be involved, you must be attending WCEU. You can sign up here.

What do you need to do?

Facilitators will be in charge of the testing time. If you wish to just run tests and not co-ordinate, please sign up as a tester.

Facilitators should ideally have some usability testing experience, but if you’d like to try facilitating regardless, there will be information that will help you run sessions.

Facilitators will:

  • Welcome people interested in testing Gutenberg.
  • Set up testers with the Gutenberg test survey and the Gutenberg testing site, then start the provided screen recording app.
  • After the test is complete, save the test recording and reset everything.
  • Chat with testers about their experiences and their thoughts on Gutenberg, taking notes where possible.

If you are not attending WCEU, there is still a way you can help out: after the event, there will be a post created asking for volunteers to help process the tests.

Hope to see you there!