[WG: Sakai QA] [DG: User Experience] QA and user testing

[David Haines]

We're fully open to comments on the changes, but Michigan is unlikely  
to find resources to be able to modify the current scope of the  
modifications beyond smoothing rough edges.  User testing data would  
certainly inform any future set of changes.

Is there a timeline for getting feedback? It would be good to move the  
process along quickly (but not hastily).

- Dave

David Haines
CTools Developer
Digital Media Commons
University of Michigan
dlhaines at umich.edu




On Jul 27, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Clay Fenlason wrote:

> I was reviewing the excellent documentation for a set of Forums UI
> changes (see http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/EoLgAw), and it
> reminded me of an old idea. We tend to test for technical failure
> foremost, but the main claim of the Forums UI work is that it improves
> usability. It would seem to me sound QA practice to test this, using
> community expertise in good user testing practice.  Could this be an
> area where the UX group and QA WG could join forces? Would anyone like
> to take a look at proposed 2.7 changes that have a clear UI impact and
> conduct reviews or testing along these lines?
>
> There's something that may feel a little misplaced in vetting a design
> when development has been essentially completed, I know, but I think
> it would help the community to have strong confirmation of the
> imagined benefits, and if there are still small rough edges to smooth
> over it may not be too late to address, say, CSS and HTML during QA.
>
> ~Clay
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