Usability Test 2

Site Name		Sherlock Holmes - a guide	Version Number
Date of Tryout		Nov. 29
Tester's Name		Kelsey Field
Start Time		10:26am	Finish	10:45
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	The coverage of topics is great, I love how you have gathered all the information together, it is neat seeing that, as it is so separated in the books. The organization is good, but you might add Mrs. Hudson to the characters list. The tone is still like Conan Doyle's writing, but I like the little touches of humour. I like 'a truly singular website, Watson' on the very front.
Navigation Reader gets lost or is unsure Main menu every page Broken links	great	No broken links that I found, apart from Holmes' England.
Design Layout clean or cluttered Adequate white space (lists, paragraphs) Font choice Color Choice Graphics communicate? Graphics load time on dialup connection	Ok Ok Ok Ok Ok Ok	I like the colours, my copy of Hound of the Baskervilles is a Penguin copy, so I recognized the colour scheme. I like the graphics, because they aren't pictures of various actors, they're the original drawings.		I chose not to use actor pictures on purpose, I'm glad someone noticed.
Ask the Tester:	How many more times would you visit this site: Once? Twice? More than twice?			definitely more than twice
	On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate this site?			9
	What part of the site would you rate highest?"			the character info
	What part of this site would you rate lowest?			the table will be great, but is confusing now because it isn't finished.
Additional Tester Observations	Maybe add a few more pictures; people really interested in Holmes don't mind that there aren't many, but to grab people's attention you need more than just text.
Time to Complete	19min
Ask Yourself	Accuracy of my design assumptions for entire site (1 to 10 scale)			9
	Rank the three most successful site components			The time table, the colour scheme/theme, the drawings being gifs with transparent backgrounds
	Rank the three least successful site components			Lack of images, dark stripes on the right-hand side, main.html
Additional Designer Observations	I really need to make the main page more interesting and catchy for people to look at.