[Plone-UI] Usability testing tools

Nathan Van Gheem vangheem at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 19:32:29 UTC 2012


No, that's a different purpose. We're doing user testing here to see how
well people interact with the prototypes we come up with.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Ed Manlove <devPyPlTw at verizon.net> wrote:

> **
> Nathan,
>
> Ok, I understand your goals for this type of user testing a little better
> now.  Is this something that our new Robot Framework/Selenium testing
> framework could help with?
>
> Ed
>
>
> On 10/24/2012 11:52 AM, Nathan Van Gheem wrote:
>
> Hi Ed,
>
>  This is more in reference to things being discussed with the UI team.
>
>  We're looking to provide click dummies to be tested of deco and a new
> contents browser widget.
>
>  See:
>
>
> http://static.nathanvangheem.com/plone-conf-2012-ui-sprint/clickdummies/contentfinder/index.html
>
>  and
>
>
> http://static.nathanvangheem.com/plone-conf-2012-ui-sprint/clickdummies/future-deco/
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Ed Manlove <devPyPlTw at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> On 10/24/2012 09:17 AM, Nathan Van Gheem wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Roche!
>>>
>>> http://www.optimalworkshop.com/chalkmark-demo
>>>   -- using only mockups instead of click dummies.
>>>   -- nice walk through process for taking tests
>>>
>>> I would like to either put some of our own software together to provide
>>> user testing or ask the plone foundation for some money to use a commercial
>>> tool.
>>>
>>>
>>  Nathan,
>>
>> Testing of what exactly? The default out-of-box sunburst theme along with
>> "default Plone site" of Home/Events/? ? I say this because the example
>> above you cite shows static layouts of a homepage. Maybe you are talking
>> more about the overlays or site properties pages, etc?
>>
>> One problem with a single generic Plone user testing tool is the variety
>> of design within Plone sites. I suspect the best tool will actually be
>> someone within the community using some tools, like ClickHeat or others,
>> and sharing their experiences along with some best practices with the
>> community. From the experience of others we can build the community
>> knowledge of best practices for user testing one's own custom Plone site.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>
>
>
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