Week 2 Friday - Wireframes and User Testing

Today we drew up the first thumbnails for our prospective websites, based on the user journeys we made last class. We modified the journeys as we saw fit, then made them bigger and did a round of user testing on them.

[scan/photos of paper prototype]

The main feedback I got from mine was that it was still very similar to the Stuff layout, and also that the date/calendar aspect needed a lot of focus to make sure it's clear to the user where/when they are. While people found the calendar in the sketches, it was likely more because that part of the page was more well rendered and obviously a focus. In a fully realized design, they wouldn't stand out as much.

Notes from user testing

Week 2 - User Journeys

This class, we looked at the same articles from last week and the user journey it took to find them on stuff.co.nz.

This presented an issue for me, as I found one of the newspaper articles I chose was recycled from an online opinion piece written and published a month earlier. There's no way to browse through older articles in sections on stuff; once it's too old to be on the front page, it can only be found through searching.

Week 1

We started by looking at the newspaper The Dominion Post, taking note of how the content was organized and presented, the hierarchy of information and such. We then looked at the same articles on stuff.co.nz, owned by the same company, and compared the difference in layout.

Sports section

Article online

Business section

first post