Usability audience

• Where can you find 3-5 individuals from your target audience to test this web site on?
• We feel that we could find easily 3 to 5 people to test our web site just on campus, but some other places would be the friends of Anthony because he know a lot of people that are involved in the bar scene and also involved in the music industry.
• How can you solicit for these individuals to take your test?
  • Will you require flyers/marketing around a certain area or building?
  • We could make flyers and post them near or in bars, or where a lot of people walk. we would have to make the flyer eye catching so people stop and look then more than likely they will test out our site.
  • Will you send out emails to a particular group of people on or around campus?
  • We could post in groups on Facebook that we are both in and post all over social media to get people to test our site.
  • Will you ask 3-5 friends you already know for assistance that might represent candidates from your user group? Think back to your personas and which people might fall into a similar category as the theoretical personas.
  • I know some of my friends do fit our personas but I feel like that where we would post our flyer or ad would give us a better picture of who actually would use the site, rather than our friends because if they are really our friends they will do it anyway, so i want people i do not know to use/test out our site.
• How has your site changed since your paper-prototype version?
• The navigation bar was removed from the login and register page so they cannot access anything without logging in.
• Our home page became the Streaming Now page instead of a separate landing page.
• In our footer, we removed privacy policy (it will be worked into terms of use) so we could find a place to link to the About page.
• We also added a header to the top of each page so you can tell what page you're on.
• We also created a "Log out" button
• How do you foresee differences in usability testing from the paper wireframe exercise we did in class - will you have to modify your script?
• Overall, we found out we need to communicate the music samples of DJs and information about DJs and bars more clearly, so users don't think they can only stream music happening at that time. We also need to provide direct links to the bar and DJ's profile from the Streaming Now page. We also concluded that the Login/Register page should be the first thing the user sees to grant them access to the site. When they are granted access, they will be taken directly to the Streaming Now page. We chose this page because it directly relates to the purpose of the website more than other pages and is more likely to encourage people to stream music or pick those bars. With this being said, we do not think that we have to change our script.