[OH-Dev] Open Hatch Prep for Saturday AM

[Asheesh Laroia]

Sri and Carol -- I had chatted with both of you about user testing, and I 
wanted to write an email here with all the references I have so you can 
hit the ground running.

Background reading:

* A few months ago's thoughts on how to do user testing: 
http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/003231.html

* http://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/ 
if (like me) you're new to usability testing



Relevant stuff for tomorrow:

* You're going to have to explain all of (1) the purpose of the website 
(2) the purpose of user testing (3) the nuts and bolts of how to do that 
user testing, to the people who want to work with you. The "nuts and 
bolts" is really just to ask people to make-believe they are a user trying 
to acheive a task, and have them try to achieve that task, narrating out 
loud as they go and recording where they click.

* It would be amazing if we can ask people to record their screens. On 
Linux, one (hilariously long) recipe for doing so is at 
http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/greenhouse/2013-July/000008.html . 
For Windows and Mac... not sure.

* I'll be adding specific tasks in the 
http://systers.org/wiki/communities/doku.php?id=wiki:ghc:ghc13:osd:openhatch 
page in the bullet list labeled "Use the OpenHatch website, and give us 
feedback..." -- expect to see a lot more there by ~9am.

* Sri, also, I created a collection of OpenHatch bugs that just need 
someone to look them over to make sure they are still bugs. I figure you 
can also mentor people with that, if we split the user-testing load 
between you and Carol. But I'll also let Carol and you decide if you want 
split that up in a different fashion. See "Review some existing bugs..." 
on the 
http://systers.org/wiki/communities/doku.php?id=wiki:ghc:ghc13:osd:openhatch 
doc.


-- Asheesh.