It sounds like a little bit of direct, intensive observation is worth a lot of testing a a distance.
Thanks Jeff Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 7, 2017, at 5:31 PM, Jeff Reynolds via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Jonathan, > > I second bill's approach of watching folks use the app. Years of educational > software creation taught me this. I would always make friends with a local > teacher that was into tech and they usually were happy to get a period to try > something on the kids if it only took one period to do in the lab and was > something they thought good first. Things were so self evident on what just > worked and what crashed and burned. I really found that the designs that were > forced (usually by marketing) always crashed and burned, but the just good > ideas that came out of what was it we were really trying to do somehow > avoided most all the little design eddies that folks would get a little hung > up by. But watching you could quickly see those eddies w.o having to do hard > core testing. Sadly this is hard to do for free in a school anymore but > hiring some kids or adults will do. > > It's funny as I've found the same thing with exhibit design. I would always > spend a few hours just watching folks after we finished an exhibit. I found > it really invaluable to find the little issues and the big ones and you could > see so easily what folks were getting and what they were not, what they were > looking and and not looking at and how they felt about the exhibit in the > whole. Many of these exhibits got very expensive summative evaluations and I > found that my just watching observations were right in line with heavy > testing and many times a bit more complete and useful for potentially fixing > things and learning for the future. > > Cheers > > Jeff > >> On Jul 7, 2017, at 1:53 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: >> >> Jonathon, >> I feel your pain. In my case, I was initiated by my students and very >> quickly learned how to ask the questions a newbie would ask. I also paid >> small amounts to graduate students to get their feedback. >> >> One of my very effective testers is my grandson, my wife, any of my >> colleagues who might be enticed to use the app. Looking over the shoulder >> while these folks use the app can be very illuminating. >> >> In summary: >> 1. Ask friends and relatives first. >> 2. Perhaps there would be volunteers from the live ode users group. >> 3. Hire high school students who might have a tech interest. Look over their >> shoulders as they use the app and dialog to themselves. Actually watching >> users is invaluable. >> >> Good luck, >> Bill P > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
