Rachael L Wright

NOTE-TAKING

I take notes with pictures when I use the whiteboard

I take notes with video when I want to capture a teacher’s review session

I take notes with text when I want to list something

I take notes with voice when I have a good idea while walking

I takes notes with drawings when I want to draw a chart or write an equation

And I want to capture them all and store them in one place.

PROBLEM?

I built the first prototype in PPT which allowed me to associate different icons with different actions

I built the second in paint, because I wanted to represent a menu quickly and easily, with problems from overlapping

links in powerpoint

I presented a structured test environment on the GGC Wiki

TECHNOLOGY

All prototypes were tested on individual student laptops

Prototypes represented an android tablet environment

HARDWARE

PROTOTYPES

Take Text Note

Take Video

Take Voice

Draw

TASKS

Subjects Read the Disclosure

Completed Pre-survey

Opened prototype 1

Completed Tasks for Prototype 1

Took Post-survey

Opened prototype 2

Completed Tasks for Prototype 2

Took Post-survey

All testing was done on the student’s laptop via GGC Wiki

Pre-Survey

Smartphone comfort level and ownership

Post-Survey

Buy-in

Speed

Ease of Use

3 Test Subjects

DATA COLLECTION

Testers preferred a complicated UI to one they understood

Buy-in measures the interest in the product and the user’s opinion of it, and although Prototype 1 had phenomenal

Usability results, it consistently stunk in buy-in, because it wasn’t attractive

RESULTS

Better Graphics

Replacing the text bar

Finding an intuitive way to collect individual task results to pinpoint pain points

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