Week 14.2

Today in class we had our final critique on our last project. We were not able to see our feedback though to make any changes. After that we started working on our next project. For this we are working with user testing. We created 2 different simple usability testing, one that was goal focused and one that is a 5 second test. You can see my studies and complete them yourself at the links below

5 second test:
http://fivesecondtest.com/test/_E3IHcFQCHH6mVSj

Goal focused:
https://candylady.optimalworkshop.com/chalkmark/candylady

Week 14.1

Today in class we had an informal critique of our progress so far. Most of the feedback I received was positive with only a few suggestions of getting rid of intro pages and lining icons. Here is the process I made during class today with adding the content to my pages.

Outside Class Week 13

This weekend I completed 50% of my documentation case study for thecandylady.com. I worked on getting all the imagery into the piece as well as the styles and backgrounds. All I have to do yet is work on content and make sure that I proofread. I decided to add small illustrations to go with the cover illustration I created as well as connect the sections together and with the table of contents as well. With my imagery I focused on trying to show in as much detail what I worked on throughout this process.

Week 13.2

Today in class we had time to just work on our things. I was able to meet with my professor and another student to go over all the components that I have so far. I got a lot of feedback on changes I could make to my personas and wireframes and well as add to my case study as well. 

Week 13.1

Today in class we went over our finally project and what it would encompass. We will be creating a case study about the process we have so far on redesigning the site (in my case the Candy Lady). Here is a list of components that we are to have in our final case study:

cover page
table of contents
about section
process (audit, cardsortimg. sitemap, persona, and wireframes)
summary of findings
colophon (notes not in the summary)

Here is the progress I made during class today

Outside of Class Week 12

This weekend I worked on completing my wireframes. After reading the chapter on wireframes in A Project Guide to UX Design, I felt like I understood more of what a wireframe needs to encompass. I took the time to sketch out different options of how to arrange things for the candy lady site and finally came up with what I felt was the best decision. Once the sketch was complete I was able to transfer that into a digital form making it easier to read and follow. 

I also took the time to fix the suggestions I had on my persona and also start a second one since my cliental for the Candy Lady shop could be two completely different things. I was really struggling with what type of graph or what to show in the graph for the second persona so I ended up leaving it blank for now and will try and talk to some students in class to get feedback on what they think as well. 

Week 12.2

Today in class we had a critique on our personas that we created. Here is the feedback that I received after the class looked over mine.

- Title it as a persona and who it is for
- Change user goals to online activities
- Fix organization
- Show how much of a fan of the show she is (how much time she spends watching it a week)
- Change online activities to bullets to break up space
- Missing the "e" in personal interests
- Change picture (Not Chelsea Clinton)
- Make a second persona based on someone who loves candy
- Proof read!

We also went over wireframes and how to create them. That is our homework for the weekend, to create a home and sub page wireframe taking into consideration our persona and site map.