Minor Project 30 Read and Blog

1. Making things that are obviously clickable.  You don't want to make your users have to think about whether something is a link or not.

2. The images in the chapter about how we really use the web that show the eye path of a user.

3. Designing for scanning.

4. Making labeling clear and concise.  

5. Omitting needless words on the web.  

6. Clear Navigation - having it stay relatively the same on each page so that is not confusing to the user.

7. The Trunk Test -  is there a title and section for everything that is important on the page.

8. How using taglines and blurbs can make it easier to get the message across.

9. The Usability Test - you always need to test out your site because it is always going to have a clear message to you because you made it.

10. Don't Make Me Think - make everything user friendly.

Website Preview/Mobile Site Preview

Website

Mobile Site

Minor Project 29: Dynamic Prototype

http://www.wix.com/samanthabaccala/bhptest

Minor Project 28: Blog Ch10

I had Melissa Gaines do the usability test for my website.

She is a student at Quinnipiac University and works at Charlotte Russe.

She spends an average of 28 hours on the internet a week. 

Around 80% of the time it is web browsing.

She looks at social media sites, music sites, and news.

She really likes being on twitter.

She thought the website had a warm and inviting feel.  The images really caught her attention.  She immediately knew it was a website for a pizzeria.  She liked how she could see all of the different menus and that the daily specials are on the page as well so you don't have to go into the restaurant to see them

I then asked her to find the reviews from urban spoon and it only took her one click to get there.  She immediately knew to go to the reviews tab and found it there. 

Next I asked her to find the facebook page and she saw the facebook button on the bottom of the page and again was there in one click.

Finally I asked her to find the dinner menu and in 2 clicks (menu, dinner) she found her way there.