Blog 10 – North Tyneside Prototype Testing Outcome

BLOG 10 – North Tyneside Prototype Testing Outcome

On the Thursday the 7th of December, our whole group took the opportunity to meet with Julia (our main client from North Tyneside council), Teresa (our academic mentor), Oscar (mayor of the Youth Council) and Emily (part of the environmental team on the youth council). The aim of this meeting was to allow them to participate in a prototype testing on our website ‘Tyne-vironment’ that we have made using the Marvelapp website.

Overall, the experience of the prototype testing was very positive and our client’s/stakeholders were very happy with the outcome of our prototype.

· The digital method – would be a great way to connect with the young people as they don’t come to meetings so the blog would be a good aspect

· Liked the range of questions

· They can see it as a viable option as it can be put in the monthly meeting for Emily – could be to discuss statistics or change the questions

· The children’s council could promote this aswell because this is there peers – they will have the right language to use

· Really liked how we have encorporated the youth council into the newsfeed

· Liked how we focused on a single age group (Primary School) as they recognise that is difficult to get one method to be effective from 5-16.

They did provide us some useful criticism as well that we will be using in the next couple of weeks to improve Tyne-vironment in order to make the necessary changes for our final presentation to ensure that we meet all of our clients needs.

The following are a summary of the notes that were taken throughout the prototype testing that we will hopefully work to improve Tyne-vironment in the coming weeks –

· Little bit wordy for the small children

· Could be more information on how to make choices about recycling when they get the wrong answer

· Legend on the map for the water refill stations

· In the future, the water refill stations could utilise the logo that oscar’s campaign will have for water refill bottle’s in North Tyneside however they are still deciding on a logo

· Implementation of things like existing cycle paths on the google maps page

Overall, the meeting for prototype testing with our client was successful and ran smoothly. We were happy with how the meeting went and the outcome of their feedback.

Moving forward we hope to continue to have a positive relationship with our client’s surrounding the development of Tyne-vironment and work to improve the website in order to satisfy their needs.

One thought on “Blog 10 – North Tyneside Prototype Testing Outcome”

Hello team, thanks for the post. It seems like you have made good use of your time. It is also good to differentiate between what already works well and where the prototype could potentially be improved further. Some questions: was there any variation in the response to your prototype amongst the young people ; and young people and Julia? Do you think that your prototype, if developed, can tap into your project goals (developed and established in week 1 and 2)? It would be good to see a bit more detail on how exactly these prototype demonstrations were arranged. Perhaps refer back to the five-act interview, that was outlined in the Design Sprint book and discuss where or how your approach differed? Also is there any room for improvement if you were to run the user test again?

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