We’ve got four tasks for today:

1. Listen and evaluate first tech briefing:  Simple web design (Lincoln & Mark). We’ll spend 10-15 minutes hearing from Lincoln and Mark and another 5-10 completing their evaluation form. Again, not only do these forms count toward your participation grade, they count toward the presenter’s TB grade. I’ll walk you through the form one more time before Lincoln and Mark begin.

Here is their deliverable.

2. Listen to usability lecture. Slides are here. I’ll share definitions, examples, technologies, and methods for usability or user-experience (UX) testing.

3. Review guidelines for making your own test. We’ll take a look at this handout, which is designed to help you think through the steps required for test design.

4. Analyze a usability report example. This is a very strong example of a usability report from  my Fall 2011 class and should give you an idea of what I’m looking for. We’ll take a look at some of its strengths and raise questions moving forward.

For Thursday, read about usability testing in Anderson and take a look at this usability study about the iPad. Depending on what we got through today, I’ll give you some time with your team to discuss how you’d like to design your tests for next week.