This week we focused on getting the prototype test scenes done. Since we do not have the technology of the sensor (to identify the thumb up or down), we chose to do the prototype in a powerpoint presentation, we believe this method will be most efficient to display our ideas and present them in the most realistic and interactive way.
The slides show a scene sequence explaining how our design works and what would be the order we imagined it displaying, starting with a newspaper ad, followed by a street viewer scene and the drivers view of the traffic light. Then the different signs are shown and a voting system in powerpoint allows the user to actually vote as it would happen in real life. Depending of the users choice, a different sign or the Twitter handle will follow.
The scenes were made using Canva, Photoshop and Balsamiq, to create the signs layouts and the slides scenes, and a decision map was made explaining how the order the signs would be shown depending of the vote.
We have arranged to meet with Mark, Julie and Ali to test our prototype and see if they approve of our designs. We plan to do this within the civic centre which will be a fairly formal setting but very appropriate as this is where elections sometimes take place or ballots involving the public. We aren’t planning to ask questions during the prototyping but to explain our ideas more and how did we prepare the presentation so they understand when we expect them to actually interact and vote, so we can let our testers have a play around with our project to get to know it a bit better.
User Test Plan:
We believe our prototype is more a service than an actual device and we expect to find out if our users believe it would be effective for Heaton. We also want to find out if after testing it they agree that it would be a good method to introduce the idea that cycle routes are beneficial.
We know the ideal participants would be Heaton road passers by and residents such as Julie herself. But due to Ali’s wishes for us to keep this out of the public as much as possible, we decided to include her, Mark and third party to test it also.
We intend to start the testing with 5 act interview, welcoming the users, asking what kind of travellers are they, if they normally pass by Heaton road… Then, introduce the prototype, explain what it is and how we expect them to interact (after the scenes start voting). Fourthly, task – get them to carry out tasks on the presentation. Fifth, quick debrief to confirm whether they believe it is effective and would be successful.
For this testing we will only need a computer with the presentation and the users. We believe it will be very accessible and easy to perform the testing.
Hi team. You talked this plan through with me in the seminar last week and I was really pleased with what you had planned. Don’t worry that you don’t have the technology – we are aware of this and you don’t need to justify why you don’t have it! The point is of course to test a proof of concept. As I explained last week it’s a necessary part of tech design, and would certainly come before anyone would dedicate time or resources to build a tech like this for real. I hope the testing went well last week? I don’t have anything else to add or ask at this stage, I’ll just look forward to catching up about it tomorrow!
Thanks, team. You have a good plan for your prototype demos. Please describe the roles you would respectively take during the session — especially in relation to facilitation and documentation of insights or comments you obtained (how did you capture notes; and did you put some structure in place for evaluating the feedback?)…