Paper prototyping feedback (Wk 6)

The paper prototyping exercise this week in the contact gave some useful feedback for our website. The prototype was constructed mainly aiming to receiving feedback on the navigation systems in place on our website. To best analyse our feedback received, we recorded all of the user trials including their verbal feedback at the end and we also took notes during the trial to note any key functional flaws in our prototype. A video of one of the user trials has been included below. Reflecting on the session I think we definitely got the feedback we were after, in fact the majority of the criticism received regarded site navigation - for example the current date and page dates confused users trying to navigate to the calendar page. This feedback will significantly help us to refine our website to have rigidly specific navigation that is much clearer to all users.


 Whilst testing other groups' prototypes, I found one common source of frustration was that several of the groups web applications lacked a 'global header' navigation element that is on almost every modern website in this current age. Reflecting on this, I think I was continually missing the convenience that this header usually provides - in other words I just was not used to not seeing it there. The key point I can take out of this is that websites will be more successful if they have the same feel and common elements of other websites (such as global headers and footers, easy-to-use navigation bars, etc).

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