I've done most of the leg work now for turning this into a beta feature. I made a minor but super cool and exciting change to it that will blow your mind - watch this space :)
Reviews welcomed here - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/107523 ! On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Jared Zimmerman < [email protected]> wrote: > Good things to be aware of, thanks Maryana > > > > *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia > Foundation > M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Maryana Pinchuk > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> lol @ my, erm, heterogeneous list of contributions - Ukrainian riot >> police and basketball uniforms! :) >> >> Watching these made me think about one thing we should probably start to >> pay more attention to: the network of usertesting.com users we've built >> up over the years. I've definitely seen two of these folks (misterbeauds >> and kayaker) before in usertesting tests I've run, which means they've had >> an unusual amount of exposure to the details of Wikipedia UI, both current >> and planned. That probably partly explains why they seem to know about >> things like page history, watchlist, etc., without being "real" editors. >> >> Every time I put a test up on usertesting.com, I get at least one of >> those repeat testers - probably because our Wikipedia tests are a lot more >> fun than whatever standard eyeball monetization software these people >> normally have to endure ;) But that means we might be underestimating their >> level of expertise (since they're not truly naive users) and >> over-representing their views of our UI improvements (since they tend to >> offer up similar soundbites time after time - e.g., kayaker's "this looks >> like code" and "I don't want to mess anything up," which I've heard her say >> before). >> >> Anyway, just something for our future Lead UX Researcher to tackle, >> probably with a detailed database/registry of past testers :) >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Brandon Harris <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> The first battery of user tests have completed against the >>> Winter prototype. I have included links to all of them at the main Winter >>> page: >>> >>> >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter#Harness_One:_Winter >>> >>> All tests are annotated, but highlights are included in-line. >>> >>> The primary take-aways are: >>> >>> * No tester had difficulty recognizing the search bar. >>> * All testers quickly grasped the in-page context action >>> ribbon. >>> * Several testers expressed surprise that Wikipedia had >>> discussions, which lends even more credence to the idea that Vector tabs >>> are effectively invisible. >>> * The "Cancel" button from the editor may need work. >>> * All testers found their way to the contributions page, >>> even when faced with bugs/difficulties. They just did it in other routes. >>> >>> I am very pleased with the results. >>> >>> I've created a Flow discussion about this here: >>> >>> >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Winter&topic_postId=rqjdm79t36svcvf2&workflow=rqjdm79t36svcvf2 >>> >>> --- >>> Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wmfproduct mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfproduct >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Maryana Pinchuk >> Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation >> wikimediafoundation.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon
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