Good things to be aware of, thanks Maryana
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk(a)wikimedia.org
lol @ my, erm, heterogeneous list of
contributions - Ukrainian riot
police and basketball uniforms! :)
Watching these made me think about one thing we should probably start
to pay more attention to: the network of
usertesting.com users we've
built up over the years. I've definitely seen two of these folks
(misterbeauds and kayaker) before in usertesting tests I've run, which
means they've had an unusual amount of exposure to the details of Wikipedia
UI, both current and planned. That probably partly explains why they seem
to know about things like page history, watchlist, etc., without being
"real" editors.
Every time I put a test up on
usertesting.com, I get at least one of
those repeat testers - probably because our Wikipedia tests are a lot more
fun than whatever standard eyeball monetization software these people
normally have to endure ;) But that means we might be underestimating their
level of expertise (since they're not truly naive users) and
over-representing their views of our UI improvements (since they tend to
offer up similar soundbites time after time - e.g., kayaker's "this looks
like code" and "I don't want to mess anything up," which I've
heard her say
before).
Anyway, just something for our future Lead UX Researcher to tackle,
probably with a detailed database/registry of past testers :)
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
>
> The first battery of user tests have completed against the
> Winter prototype. I have included links to all of them at the main Winter
> page:
>
>
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter#Harness_One:_Winter
>
> All tests are annotated, but highlights are included in-line.
>
> The primary take-aways are:
>
> * No tester had difficulty recognizing the search bar.
> * All testers quickly grasped the in-page context
> action ribbon.
> * Several testers expressed surprise that Wikipedia
> had discussions, which lends even more credence to the idea that Vector
> tabs are effectively invisible.
> * The "Cancel" button from the editor may need work.
> * All testers found their way to the contributions
> page, even when faced with bugs/difficulties. They just did it in other
> routes.
>
> I am very pleased with the results.
>
> I've created a Flow discussion about this here:
>
>
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Winter&topic_postId=rq…
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