Goal
- Evaluate information architecture of College website
- Assess usability of proposed website redesign
- Provide recommendations for website redesign
Process
- Performed a heuristic evaluation to identify areas for improvement
- Created a card sorting exercise in PowerPoint emailed to users for fast and remote data collection
- Analyzed card sorting results via UXSort and Excel
- Created interactive prototypes of website redesign in PowerPoint
- Conducted usability testing with prototypes and questionnaires
- Presented findings to College Dean and stakeholder users
Impact
- Identified user-preferred and most usable visual design from proposed options
- Provided recommendations to streamline and clarify information architecture
- Published and presented methodology for card sorting and prototyping via PowerPoint at Annual Meeting of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2012)
Timeframe:
January 2012 - May 2012
Role:
Doctoral Student
Methods:
Card Sorting
Heuristic Evaluation
Prototyping (via PowerPoint)
Questionnaire Design
Usability Testing
Tools:
Excel
Google Forms
PowerPoint
UXSort
Domains:
Website Usability