Summary of Key Findings
From usability testing, we found a few key issues with our prototype which will inform our next iteration of development. First, ‘Access Friction Whitelist’ and ‘Notification Whitelist’ were confusing for most of our participants. Second, our navigation bar icons were unintuitive for some. Lastly, there were some minor UI problems revolving around consistency and intuitiveness that we want to address.
Our Participants
We conducted our usability tests on peers from CS 247B. After informing them about the purpose of our app, we asked them about their experience with morning routines and electronic usage for a variety of reasons, some including: to see if there were any links between either of these variables and their usage patterns on the app, to understand why they might be inclined to certain actions or thought processes, and to identify any biases they might have while using the app.
Tasks
We asked our participants to complete 4 tasks that covered the main functionalities of our app. Specifically, the tasks were:
- Create a template morning routine that consists of the tasks you want to perform in the morning and apply it as your morning routine.
- Check your streaks info.
- Whitelist some of the apps.
- Change the settings of the notification manager in order to manage notifications.
Problems & Severity
Below are 7 problems we found, ordered by severity.
Severe
- Problem: Access Friction Whitelist & Notification Whitelist descriptions are too long and unintuitive
Solution: Show how the friction whitelist and notification whitelist works through images and hide the description text inside a info bubble - Problem: Tasks can be created but not be deleted
Solution: Make tasks deletable
Moderate
- Problem: Continue button does not work on onboarding tasks
Solution: Properly connect the continue button so users are not stuck on onboarding tasks - Problem: Navbar icons are not intuitive for the tasks they are supposed to represent
Solution: Find new icons that properly unify the app. Example, if we keep the app access restriction icon, find a very similar icon for notifications
Trivial
- Problem: Adding task icon is not representative of the app in terms of color
Solution: Change the color of add task icon - Problem: Streaks page is not scrollable despite the fact that the UI is represented as if it were scrollable
Solution: Make the streak details page scrollable to show more information about streaks and your previous morning details - Problem: Add task popup is visually distracting and not in tune with the rest of the app
Solution: Add a border or make the background color light blue
