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Best Practices in Web Evaluation
Mark A. Greenfield
Mark Greenfield
Higher ed web professional, consultant, keynote speaker, futurist, uwebd overlord,
lacrosse coach, tennis player, music lover, dog rescuer, volleyball dad
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The Entire Site Matters
Operations
Evaluation
Strategy
the .edu lifecycle
Why do you have a website?
1. Too busy
2. Consensus on what makes a good website
Challenges
Time Management Matrix
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• Crisis• Pressing problems• Deadline-driven projects,
meetings, preparations
• Preparation• Prevention• Planning• Values clarification• Relationship building
• Needless interruptions• Unnecessary reports• Unimportant phone calls,
meetings, mail• Many popular activities
• Trivia, busywork• Time wasters• Some phone calls, mail• “Escape activities”
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25 - 30% 15%
50 - 60% 2 - 3%
Urgent Not Urgent
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20 - 25%
25 – 30%
65 - 80%
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50 – 60%
Less than 1%
2 – 3%
Urgent Not Urgent
What makes a good website?
HiPPO
HIghest Paid Person’s Opinion
what a site looks like
is NOT the only thing that matters
What makes a good website?
The lens through which you view the world
Paradigms
Know what you don’t know
What makes a good website?
What do students think?
Form over Function
Simple and easy:73% juniors77% seniors
Cool design/features:27% juniors23% seniors
Facts vs. Feelings
Facts, dates and details:
80% juniors84% seniors
Get a feeling for the school:20% juniors16% seniors
Photos or Words?
Words are most important:
72% juniors76% seniors
Photos and videos:28% juniors24% seniors
Evaluation Methodologies
How many of you evaluate your website based on
Analytics
Web Analytics
• Know your KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
• Analytics should be an ongoing process
• Focus on trends
• Be wary of the macro view
When is a redesign that results in a decrease of 500,000
page views a good thing?
How many of you evaluate your website based on
The User Experience
“Most senior administrators understand usabilty about as well as they understand the average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow.”
- John Rhodes
We need more people with UX expertise
UCD Methodologies
Affinity Diagrams Benchmarking BrainstormingCard Sorting Cognitive Walkthrough Contextual InquiryExpert Evaluation Eye Tracking Field Study Five Second Tests Focus Group Functionality MatrixHeat Maps Heuristic Evaluation InterviewJourney Maps Mental Models PersonasSurveys Task Analysis Usability Tests
UCD Methodologies
Affinity Diagrams Benchmarking BrainstormingCard Sorting Cognitive Walkthrough Contextual InquiryExpert Evaluation Eye Tracking Field Study Five Second Tests Focus Group Functionality MatrixHeat Maps Heuristic Evaluation InterviewJourney Maps Mental Models Personas Surveys Task Analysis Usability Tests
Usability Tests
Wisdom from Steve Krug
• Testing one user is 100% better than testing none
• The best kept secret of usability testing is that it doesn’t matter much who you test (recruit loosely and grade on a curve)
• Think about the implications of “domain knowledge”
• Focus on scenarios, not tasks
analytics can tell you what people are doingbut not why
Focus Groups / Usability Tests / Surveys
• Focus groups are good for understanding attitudes and perceptions
• Focus groups are not a good way to get usability information.
• Focus groups are numerically impossible to generalize to a larger population so they can’t replace surveys.
• What people say they do and what they actually do are often very, very different
Heuristic Evaluation
A usability evaluation method in which an expert performs a systematic inspection of a web site based on a set of design principles (commonly referred to as heuristics)
Task Flow Analysis
Task flow analysis critiques what a user is required to do in terms of actions and/or cognitive processes to complete a task on a web site.
Taskonomy instead of Taxonomy
How many of you evaluate your website based on
Speed
The Need for Speed
#marks911
Response Times
0.1 second The limit for having the user feel that the system is reacting instantaneously.
1 second The limit for the user's flow of thought to stay uninterrupted, even though the user will notice the delay.
10 seconds The limit for keeping the user's attention.
People will visit a Web site less often if it is slower than
a close competitor by more than 250 milliseconds
(a millisecond is a thousandth of a second)
www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/technology/impatient-web-users-flee-slow-loading-sites.html
delicious.com/markgr/speed
How many of you evaluate your website based on
The Quality of the Code
How many of you evaluate your website based on
Credibility
How many of you evaluate your website based on
Security
How many of you evaluate your website based on
Uptime
How many of you evaluate your website on
A variety of devices and platforms
How many of you evaluate your website on
Accessibility
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- Rachael Scdoris
How many of you evaluate your website based on
The efficiency of your web operations
Operations
Evaluation
Strategy
the .edu lifecycle
Concluding Thoughts
Measure both the product and the process
How good is good enough?
All evaluation efforts must be actionable
Evaluation should be iterative and ongoing
Thank You
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