Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability Testing/Fall 08 1.2 Tests/Tester 07
The original, high quality version is under the public domain at the Internet Archive. For originals without the web-cam video feed please contact zachlym@indolering.com.
Contents
Video
Note that the facilitator pretended to answer his cell phone at ~43:00 to avoid leading the tester. <video type="viddler" id="f5456acf" width="437" height="315" desc="1x Video Full screen hack" frame="true" position="center"/> <video type="viddler" id="27f7f438" width="640" height="442" desc="2x Video Full screen hack List of tags here." frame="true" position="center"/>
Tags
Discovery
- invokes ubiquity 9:29
Qualitative Summary
He read the documentation thoroughly!
Learnability
- Watches video 1:00
- Thinks the video is too technical 4:08
- Complains about video size 4:06
- Complains about volume 3:59
- Doesn't get autosuggest 11:50 -interesting
- jagron:mashup 14:40
- jargon:dashboard 25:43
- jargon:herd 25:40
- jargon:hotkey 25:58
- documentation:map 18:28 issue.
- help:google 20:57
- Changes hotkey settings 25:52 Trac 545
- map-insert- 31:07
- map-insert- 35:59
- mousing autosuggest 10:41
Qualitative Summary
Buzzwords and names like Herd do not convey the meaning and turns user off to Ubiquity.
Commands
- wiki+ 10:05
- define+ 15:02
- google+ 17:48
- map+ 18:29
- email+ 30:33
- map-insert- 31:07
- map-insert- 35:59</u>
Qualitative Summary
Map-insert ran into two problems. The first problem was the tester couldn't find preview. The second is that map doesn't try to find a text field to put the map into.
Demographic Information
Questions taken from the FF Survey
| Age | What OS do you normally use? | How long have you been using Firefox? | Rate your computer skills. | Time on web per week? |
| 26 | Microsoft Windows | Over 2 Years | Illiterate | 21-40 Hours |
| How many computers do you regularly use? | Which are the following are you familiar with using online? | Have you ever used the Firefox Ubiquity before? | Do you know what a Command line is? | Comments |
| 2 |
|
No, I do not know what it is | No | zack is a great tester guy i.e. intern bitch |
| Do you think most people would figure out how to use Ubiquity very quickly? | Guess how frequently you would use Ubiquity in the future. | Comments or suggestions. | Is there something that the help is lacking? |
| Neutral | Often | No phone numbers to call, video is a bit dry, web page could be spruced up a bit visually | a very interesting addition to mozilla browser. It seems to make browsing/searching/emailing much more efficient. |
