#evaluation4

Perhaps in order of scale/importance(?)

Stats

The whole thing needs to be relooked! even need to research this first. 

Moods

Relook at quantifying moods. Is using a scale the best way to do so?

Onboarding/Tutorial

This will need to be researched too. What’s best for people that like to do things (probably a tutorial) and what’s the best way to go about this?

Memories 

Someone suggested I look at misuse cases, and one of the examples they provided were bad memories. What if the graphs only showed the user being sad? What then? 

I also need to research the way to quantify something like moods and emotions.

Redesign the page.

Day/night button

Moving this to somewhere more accessible

Export as PDF

Results to the hypotheses:

Stats – have a more clear layout

Hypothesis: Having a clear layout will allow users to easily enter another variable, add a mood, and learn more about themselves.

Result: The layout isn’t clear enough. Especially where users need to add the mood for another day (that isn’t today). It wasn’t intuitive enough. Participants took a long time trying to figure this out. Also the tasks that were set up did not allow the participants to understand the other features to this aspect of the app.

Add entry – changing the checklist icon automation, adding a colour task

Hypothesis: People would understand what the colour icon at the end means

Result: Participants understood, especially with the animation of the colour sliding in and out of the main palette.

Hypothesis: Less cumbersome because of the checklist automation, and having it change state once tapped on.

Result: This was a more usable to go about to do this, participants were receptive to do this.

Collage – adding more interactivity

Hypothesis: Give more interactivity would allow users to understand how to use this feature

Result: The animation and interactivity allowed participants to visually see what was happening and therefore understood what was going on. Because of this, they were able to complete the task without any problems.

Structure – multiple ways of doing things

Hypotheses: having multiple ways to do things would go with users’ mental models on how to do things.

Result: All participants had the same mental models, especially with the way they went about doing things (changing the date/editing a note)

Concerns

The prototype not being real enough – lacking in animations

The animations really helped with participants understanding what was going on with the app.

Difficulty of Tasks:

Most tasks (on average) skewed more towards the “easy” part of the scale. Out of all of the tasks, participants had the most trouble with the stats task. So this will one of the largest areas of focus for the next round of iteration.

Usability Scale:

This is a lot like the previous iteration. The positive statements “I can learn to use this app,” “I was confident using this app,” etc, were towards the Agree end, which was good to see. The only thing that was a bit controversial (lack for a better word) was the “I need instructions to use this app.” A lot mentioned that after using the app, they would understand, but they would need an explanation. 

Because this is a user-centred app, I’d like to hope that they wouldn’t need any explanation to use the app. So this is something that I think I need to work on. having the balance of on screen assistance, but not going overboard. Having intuitive icons and features without having to overly explain the functions is going to be difficult. 

Interesting notes:

Participants had given me some ideas or thoughts that I want to take forward

Changing the mood button’s location - perhaps this is needed

Moving the day/night icon to somewhere more accessible

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n-PNylyrHc)