PW401 | Usability Form Print Friendly Version

Site Name		VivMagic Theatre	Version Number
Date of Tryout		Nov.7 2004
Tester's Name		Ashley Rees
Start Time			Finish
Key: OK: No Change Needed DIS: Disastrous Problem, User Cannot Finish, Major Revision Needed Immediately MAJ: Serious Problem Significantly Impedes Reader's Progress, Major Revision Needed MIN: Superficial Problem, Minor Revision Needed
Designer	OK DIS MAJ MIN	User's Comments (point to specific location)		Observer's Notes (point to specific location)
Content How well did the site solve the user's problem? Coverage of topics Clarity of organization Clarity of sentences Appropriate tone Copy Editing	OK OK OK OK OK OK
Navigation Reader gets lost or is unsure Main menu every page Broken links	OK MIN OK	When you click on 'actors' and then on a person's name, it takes more than one click to get back to the list of actors.		Drop-down menus will be put in before the site is finished.
Design Layout clean or cluttered Adequate white space (lists, paragraphs) Font choice Color Choice Graphics communicate? Graphics load time on dialup connection	OK OK MIN OK OK OK	The font that isn't Times is very hard to read on my computer (IE, Windows ME). The graphics are great for a theatre website.		Easy to read in Safari on lab computers, probably why we didn't notice that.
Ask the Tester:	How many more times would you visit this site: Once? Twice? More than twice?			______more than twice
	On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate this site?			______8, probably higher when more content is in.
	What part of the site would you rate highest?"			______The categories of people. Hope to see even more eventually!
	What part of this site would you rate lowest?			_____Homepage. The list of site features is rather boring._
Additional Tester Observations
Time to Complete	15 min
Ask Yourself	Accuracy of my design assumptions for entire site (1 to 10 scale)			9
	Rank the three most successful site components			Different categories of people, the theatre-related graphics, relatively simple layout.
	Rank the three least successful site components			How the words don't fit the pages on some browsers. Lack of graphics on the homepage, how the book/curtain background repeats itself in Ian Case's biography.
Additional Designer Observations	The words fit the pages on Ashley's computer, but still don't on Safari in the lab.