EBoard 13: Prototyping Explorations

This class will be recorded! Its use will be limited to members of the class. Please do not share with others.

Approximate overview

• Preliminaries (3:00-3:10)
  • Administrative stuff
  • Q&A
  • Instructions for today
• Prep for Investigation 6 Focus Groups (3:10–3:20)
• Investigation 6a Focus Groups (3:20–3:45)
• Wrapup + Break + Setup (3:45–3:55)
• Investigation 6b Focus Groups (3:55–4:20)
• Wrapup (4:20–4:25)
• Debrief (4:25–4:35)
• Discussion of heuristics (4:25–4:50)

Administrative stuff

General Notes

• Happy Friday! I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
  • Sorry that you have work to do for this class over the weekend.
• There may be some dead spots in today’s class. It seemed better to have some time to switch focus.
• Congrats to Baseball for two more wins yesterday. (A six-game winning streak!)
• Congratulations to anonymized for the James Norman Hall 1910 Aspiring Writer Award, 2nd Prize in the Selden Whitcomb Poetry Prize, and the Lorabel Richardson/Academy of American Poets Prize.

Upcoming Activities

• Friday at 5:00 p.m.: CS SEPC Internship Panel
• Baseball Doubleheader Saturday at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
• Follow Men’s Tennis to Nationals at WashU
• Monday at noon: CS Table wrapup.

Work for Monday’s class. (Our last class.)

Apologies; neither is posted to Teams yet. It’s been a bad day.

• Task
  • Using Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics and a spreadsheet that I’ll provide, spend one hour evaluating an assigned Web site / tool.
  • Sites:
    • 25 Live
    • pioneers.grinnell.edu
    • Self Service / Academic Planning
    • The College Catalog
    • SmartEvals
  • Be ready to discuss
• Reading
  • Psychological Aspects of Instrument Display (skim, mostly for fun)
  • Post points or meta-points

Work for Thursday the 20th

• Investigation 6: Prototyping
• That, plus anything outstanding, will be your last work for the class.

Q&A

Instructions for today

Please hold meetings and focus groups in the Investigations 6 channel. That will allow Mai and me to visit your meetings.

The channel should include a list of what group goes when and who they interview.

While I’ve allowed twenty-five minutes for each group, it’s okay if you go a bit long.

Use your prep time to make sure that your script is in order, that you all know your roles, and other similar things.

Invite your participants at the start of the focus group session.

Prep for Investigation 6 Focus Groups (3:10–3:20)

Investigation 6a Focus Groups (3:20–3:45)

Wrapup + Break + Setup (3:45–3:55)

Investigation 6b Focus Groups (3:55–4:20)

Wrapup (4:20–4:25)

Debrief (4:25–4:35)

Short discussion of heuristics (4:35-4:50)