If you are developing a Web site for a client, and you are ready to prototype a Web site, now is the optimal time to perform your initial round of user testing. Answering the following questions will help prepare you for the test.

Question

a. What are the usability specifications you decided on?
b. How are you going to measure each usability specification?
c. What will your test scenarios be? List them and show the correspondence to your usability specifications.
d. What parts of your Web site will you need to prototype to support the test scenarios? Create the prototype.
e. How will you need to modify the sample informed consent document shown in Figure 8-4 so that you can use it for your testing sessions?
f. Create a pre-test questionnaire to determine if a person fits your user profile

Answer 1

Answering this question will be a good preparation for developing the scenarios
and supporting prototypes required for a user test. Depending on the level of maturity
of your students, you may want to review this material with them before they carry
out any user tests. One possibility would be to let the teams work in groups to discuss
how they will develop their measures for each usability specification while they are
still in the classroom. That way, you can help guide them onto the right track for
preparing their test scenarios.
For the informed consent document, they should modify
i. The purpose of the test
ii. The nature of any required identification. Most tests will not require it, since most tests don’t involve follow up questions given at a later date.
iii. The benefits
iv. The risks
v. The name of the person or team administering the test and their contact information