I sent two additional users through discovery cycle 1 on Friday afternoon. The four initial tests can be found here.
User #5 through these scenarios
Here’s the video, and my notes:
Step two notes – Log in
No problems.
Step two notes – Explain what you see
No problems.
Step Three notes – Preview your blog
Found it after a bit of trial and error
Step Four notes – Change your background color
5:20 – Yay! She was able to use the color picker.
Step Five notes – Change your site title
5:55 – No problems.
Step Six notes – Add your first post
6:42 – No problems. Used the “+ new” menu
Step Seven notes – Preview your new post
No problems.
Step Eight notes – Publish an image
9:40 – No problems – Another instance of a user literally copying and pasting the image into the visual editor.
Recap
Quickest user test so far. By far. Yay!!!!
User #6 through these scenarios
Here’s the video, and my notes:
Step two notes – Log in
- Takes 2 times to log in, but no problems.
- She see’s the big IE is out of date notice.
- 2:20 – “It’s a little distracting”, referring to dashboard in general.
Step two notes – Explain what you see
No problems.
Step Three notes – Preview your blog
No problems. Clicked link in welcome screen.
Step Four notes – Change your background color
- 3:30 – hunting and pecking through left nav
- 5:00 – tries using color picker (which semi-works in IE7/8?), she selects a color from the right hue slider, but it doesn’t update the color.
- 5:50 – comes back a second time, and only see’s hex text box – user gives up.
Step Five notes – Change your site title
- 6:30 – User ends up in Appearance -> header (this is about the 3rd user out of 6 that have tried it here). Note: we need to add a link on this page.
- 7:40 – Still trying to find it in appearance -> header
- 8:24 – Finds it in settings -> general
Step Six notes – Add your first post
9:30 – IE7/8? woes adding title in “Add new post”
Step Seven notes – Preview your new post
No problems.
Step Eight notes – Publish an image
No problems.
Recap
- So we’ve still got problems with the color picker. I think it’s slightly unfair to judge this too critically since the user is using IE7, or 8?
- I’m going to work up a quick patch to add a link to edit the users site title from the appearance -> header page.
toscho 11:10 am on September 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I think I will add the ability to edit the blog title on the header appearance page to my themes from now on. These videos are real eye-openers.
snaushads 7:15 pm on September 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Im new to Make WordPress, though ive been using wordpress for 2 yrs (not as a developer), I got to know how the UI is being worked upon by Matts “State of the Word 2012″.
And yes the video made me realize that its not the way “i” think users use WordPress.
How can i contribute as a non-programmer ?
I understand the correct url would be: http://make.wordpress.org/ui/tag/discovery-cycle-1/
Thanks.
lessbloat 12:15 pm on September 7, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Welcome!
Have a look at the new contributor handbook. You could help with testing, documentation, translating, evangelizing…