FINAL FINAL PRESENTATIONPRESENTATION

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TEAM AQUANatasya Linggananda

Bozena Kalita

Farhad Hussain

Karthick Pattabiraman

Agenda

Purpose of the project, user groups and card sorting: Natasya

Paper prototype: Karthick Usability results, suggestions of changes:

Farhad Demo: Bozena

Introduction

Background of changing the website :based on the usability testing we conducted, we identified some difficulties with the current web site and irrelevant relationship between task and student activity in the reality.

We hope the new website can help students to find what they want to know, see and use.

User Groups

Graduate in advance phase group Prospective student group Newly admitted and certificate program

student group Graduate in core phase group Graduate in prerequisite phase group Part-time and full-time student group International student group

Card Sorting One of the examples of categories that

students sorted card into was:1. New Students2. Undergrad Students3. Graduate students4. PhD students5. About DePaul6. Courses7. Student Services8. Change/Update Request

Card Sorting (cont.)

After being asked to combine of some piles, they came up with :

1. Admission

2. About DePaul

3. Current Students

4. Form and Study Guides

5. Student services

Paper Prototype

Problems

One with category names – Grouping of subtopics under specific

category Unavailability of the search feature

Criteria to measure the usability

Success rate when performing a task measured in percent of test users capable of finishing a task.

Task performance measured by the amount of time it took an average user to perform an average test.

Subjective satisfaction measured by the user’s answers to questions, body language and facial expressions:

Suggestions for changes include

Adding search feature on the main page (Home page)

Renaming one of the categories from ‘About DePaul’ to ‘DePaul & faculty’

Adding more information on subsequent pages

Demo Time…

New DePaul CTI web site