Thursday, 13 May 2010

Designing for the User Week 10

Evaluation

Reflecting back on this assignment I am pleased with the look of the site and my user feedback. However I would have added a video if I was my confident in using flash. However I have added two screenshots that are linked to videos on You Tube which are about the dales. So this shows what I would have done if I was more confident in using flash. Overall my site works and does the job it is intended for which is to promote guided walks in the Yorkshire Dales for people aged 60+.

Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Designing for the User Week 10

Analysis

From the results of my user tesing I knew what changes I had to make to the site. Overall the feedback was good and the only thing I need to change is some of the links on the map because at the moment some of them are dead links. So that is what I am going to do today find you links for places on the map that go to dead links. I also decided to make the press the red button text on the map page bolder and in red so it was easier to read.

I searched on the internet for links for Richmond, Leyburn, Ingleton, Clapham and Skipton because these where the links that didn't work. I managed to find websites that had walks and links I could add to the map. Once this was done my site was finished and I just had to upload my site.

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Design for the User Week 10

User Testing

Here are the questions I asked for my user testing and the answers I got back. I asked family, friends and people I know in the 60+ age group to test my site.

Q1 Is the website easy to use?
Q2 Is it clear which is t
he home page etc?
Q3 Is the site fit for purpose?
Q4 Do all the links work?
Q5 Can you read the text clearly?

Answers

Michael Stempczk

Website is clear andeasy to use.

Index is fine and it is clear where yoy are on the site.

The site is fit for purpose with the proviso that the links on the map page are corrected.

No clicking on some of the towns on the guided walks map the links don't work eg Rischmond , Leyburn

All the text is easy to read and very clear.


Marilyn Dunn 

Q1 The website is easy to use and looks good.

Q2 All the pages are clearly marked and easy to follow.

Q3 The site does what it says it does it provides information on Grand days out in the dales.

Q4 The links to Leyburn,Richmond, Ingleton, Clapham and Skipton do not work.

Q5 The text is easy to read and follow even with my varifocal glasses.


Denis Beecroft

1     Yes, as a novice to computers I found it easy to use.

2     I found the homepage etc easy to use, although sometimes I had to click a few times before it would connect.

3     Yes

4     There were 4 links which detailed the walks that did not work.  All the others worked fine.

5     I were glasses and found no problems reading the text.  It was very clear.


Margaret Beecroft

Yes, the website is easy to use and the links were easy to understand.

The homepage, etc were set out very clearly and the adjacent links could be accessed with no problem.

The site contained all the information you would require if you were planning a walking holiday or days out walking in the Dales

I had difficulty accessing some of the links which described the walks in detail.  These were namely Leyburn, Ingleton, Richmond, Clapham, Skipton.

I had no problems reading this website.  The background was  light so the text could be read clearly


David Fisher

Q1 Yes

Q2 Yes

Q3 It was informative and it was clearly marked to show us where to go on the site.

Q4 The links took a while to work and go to the relevant page.

Q5 No. We both needed our glasses to read the text.

Geoff White 

 All the answers are yes 

Conclusion

What I've noticed from peoples feedback is the site works apart from one or two links that don't work so I need to get them altered and find links that do work.

 


Design for the User Week 9

This week I have continued working on my site in flash. I have added all the content for the site and have given all the place names on the map buttons for the user to click on to take then to a link or pdf of a walk in that area. I decided to change the white boxes that contained the text to Aplha's so you could still see the image in the background but could still read the text. Below is how site looks now with a Home, Guided Walks, Book a Tour and Contact Us pages.












The next will be to do some user testing on the site. I intend to ask family and people I know in the 60+ age group to test my site. Then from the results of the user testing I'll be able to see what needs changing and what doesn't

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Designing for the user week 8 22/4/10

This week I started getting my site created in flash after finishing the logo design. I also decided I wanted a map of the dales so the user could click the relevant location on the map and info on walks in that area and a map would come up. I found a map on the internet of the Dales which I imported into Illustrator and drew around it with the pen tool. I then added the place names and red dots next to each name that would be transformed into buttons in flash. Below is what the map looked like after I had finished it in Illustrator.

After I had drawn the map out in Illustrator I imported it to the library in flash along with pics of the Dales I had found on the internet. I then started designing my site in flash using the rough layout I had drawn out of how I wanted it to look. Below is my first flash design for the site:

I created a home, guided tours, book a tour and contact us pages in a green nav bar underneath the header that displayed the Grandays Out Logo I designed and the Yorkshire Dales official logo. Underneath the navigation was the main content which would be text on top of a faded out pic of the Dales.