[OH-Dev] Open Hatch Prep for Saturday AM

[Sri Velagapudi]

Picking up this conversation from my other email address already on devel
mailing list.

I will be there at 9 and can help out with anything.


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> 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://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/003231.html>
>
> * http://www.nngroup.com/**articles/usability-101-**
> introduction-to-usability/<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<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<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<http://systers.org/wiki/communities/doku.php?id=wiki:ghc:ghc13:osd:openhatch>doc.
>
>
>
> -- Asheesh.
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