6.1: Thesis 1: Major Project Thesis Materials

This week I held my user testing session with a parent and two middle school students. While the parent falls outside my user range, I decided to still get feedback from her to round out my data. I thought it would be interesting to get a perspective from someone who is familiar with learning platforms from the parent perspective, knowing the challenges that her child has had. The students both come from different learning models. One student is 100% online, the other was hybrid (50% online/%50 in person) for half the year and has since switched to 100% in person. All students use online learning platforms in our district, whether they are in person or virtual.
When introducing each user to the platform I explained how to read the User Flow and what each color meant within the page hierarchy. I walked the students through logging in and landing on the student dashboard. I then gave them scenarios and asked them to navigate to certain pages (ie. missing work, teacher board, email, class video session, etc.) I received the following feedback:
• Workspace to Email: How do you get there during class?
• Add Agenda link from Class
• Add Email link from Class
• Options to toggle back and forth between pages
• Naming: Notebook & Agenda could be
confused as one another
• Rename Chat (Messenger?)
• Add Missing Work to To-Do
• Everything is easy to find and well organized. "Seems easy to use."
From the feedback I updated some parts of the user flow and will be brainstorming how to solve some of the navigational issues.
This week I also worked out several more logo comps and came up with a design that I am very excited about. I also narrowed down my color palette to an ocean theme and created a rough of my Visual System One-Sheet. I finially feel like I am heading in the right direction!