drivel

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m working on a UX course

I’m posting my comments on my blog bc tbqh rn I dun care what anyone thinks lulz

The next homework I need to complete is a user testing exercise. I’m supposed to perform moderated and unmoderated user tests, and post a comment on the course about what happened. I intend to actually do it for the sake of the experience, but like anything else, my efficiency is roughly  glacial.

Executing a test means I have to design appropriate tasks. Best way I can describe things right this second – I am cursed with galaxy brain. The course has already gone through how to do research, and figure out what elements that customers will expect. Thing is that Adobe XD is not about programming, and as such doesn’t have memory of variables. (If anyone wants to correct me go ahead!) A real website has to account for a variety of blended situations related to sorting/filtering of lists, color choices, quantities, radio button options, and text fields. Adobe XD can  display those UI elements just fine, but — once again, maybe I just haven’t figured it out yet — can’t create dynamic progression of page states.

So maybe someone wants a chair, and they want it red instead of blue, and they want three of them, and they want it to be shipped to Citytown instead of their usual default of Countryville, and they want to pay with their Visa instead of their AmEx, and they want it shipped 2-day. An Adobe XD prototype cannot account for all these zillions of possible combinations.

Thus I am still in the stage of deliberating how I am going to drastically simplify this into something that has some of the expected features of a real website, while obviously missing lots of stuff, while still making a path for the user-tester to take from start-to-finish to complete the task.