For the final round of preliminary testing on Winter before me move on to a
full beta feature I think we need to make a few changes...
Winter next steps testing:
- make sure in-page icons match upper right nav icons, not the user
actions (outlined vs filled in icons)
- have mouse over hover labels for upper right tools
- Need clearer "back to article action" from discussion, history, maybe
try some rough breadcrumb like thing just to test?
- remove the winter version number in the left nav
- remove the save my name from login
- can user and contribs page use the user name typed by the user?
- change "login screen" to say:
/// Current
This is an interactive prototype for *Winter*, a beta feature that modifies
the default skin for Wikipedia.
Please read a document about this
prototype<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter>
.
*Nothing you enter here will be saved.* This is a pure-Javascript tool and
everything will reset if you reload the page.
Before we begin, we'll need to know what to call you.
What is your user name?
/// Proposed
This is an interactive prototype being used to test updates to the
interface for Wikipedia. It is in progress and you may run into bugs or
issue. Remember we're testing the system, not you, so have fun and try to
act as you normally would on the site.
This is only a prototype, and nothing you do here will harm Wikipedia, or
be saved by the system.
*Please choose a user name to personalize your experience using the
prototype:*
As soon as we can make these changes I'd like to launch the 3rd and final
set of small scale user tests before taking our learnings from these and
making some larger changes and releasing the beta feature.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman>
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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