At Evantage, interactive prototyping and iterative prototype testing are key components of our process. We typically work on complex, business critical systems that must serve a wide array of audiences. Iterative prototyping and testing are absolutely crucial to designing a pleasant, usable experience for systems like these. There are many factors that contribute to the effectiveness of prototype testing, but one of the biggest is content. I recently cooked up a tool to help designers articulate their needs and get that content from those who have it.
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A Template for Gathering Plausible Prototype Content
Sunday, May 30th, 2010A template for capturing & analyzing qualitative user experience data
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Until recently, I captured all my data from interviews, contextual inquiries, walkthroughs, and user testing in Word. For each participant, I’d type my observations etc. into a copy of the test plan. At the end I was left with many many documents which I would print out, spread across my desk, and stare at.
I became dissatisfied with this form of analysis. It resists rigor. So during the second to last round of testing I did, I put all my Word notes into an Excel document to make comparisons more effectively. It was lovely. It took a lot of effort with all that copying & pasting, but it was worth it.
