{"id":131,"date":"2016-08-15T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T10:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T10:02:13","slug":"9-user-testing-and-project-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/sessions\/9-user-testing-and-project-surgeries\/","title":{"rendered":"9: User testing and project surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Design stage:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/category\/design-stage\/visualising-and-prototyping\/\">Prototyping and visualising<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This session focuses on the use of testing and the importance of feedback during\u00a0but also<em> after<\/em> the design process completes. Part of the premise of user-centred design approaches is the dedication to users needs, wishes, demands. Therefore user tests are important to\u00a0<em>validate\u00a0<\/em>our idea in light of actual users&#8217; interactions with the prototype we produced. The session looks into different approaches of user tests from more formal user testing in a usability lab to more informal and spontaneous user testing, such as &#8216;guerrilla testing&#8217;. The session will also discuss the need role of documentation and logging of data from user tests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seminar:<\/strong>\u00a0Discuss how you will want to test your prototype. Will you use videos \/ walk throughs, talk out loud methodologies, acting out \/ &#8220;body storming&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team:\u00a0<\/strong>Finalise your prototype. Run a rail of your user test and write a design log entry on how this test went and what you may want to improve \/ change prior to the real user tests next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design stage:\u00a0Prototyping and visualising This session focuses on the use of testing and the importance of feedback during\u00a0but also after the design process completes. Part of the premise of user-centred design approaches is the dedication to users needs, wishes, demands. Therefore user tests are important to\u00a0validate\u00a0our idea in light of actual users&#8217; interactions with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/sessions\/9-user-testing-and-project-surgeries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9: User testing and project surgeries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6384,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}