Paper Prototypes & Think Aloud with form factor
From our low fidelity wireframes and flow diagrams, we created paper prototypes to do Think Aloud user studies. Participants were asked to play two roles: a daughter who wants to take a picture of a dog that she just drew at school and send it to mom and a mom who receives the picture and sends "Great Work" to her daughter. During the actual Think Aloud user studies, these screen shots were printed black and white so we could focus on the functionality and interaction only and not be distracted by colors.
mySqueezy camera
Below are the screen shots which goes the back of the blue form camera.
mySqueezy iPhone application
Below are the screen shots of the mySqueezy application on the iPhone.
Findings from Think Aloud User Studies
For iPhone:
- Show chosen smiley face in the feedback box
- Icon of MySqueezy should be the face of the child ("why is my daughter turned into a boy in the icon?"
- Mom maybe too busy to type feedback, so sending just smiley face could be good enough.
- At girl scout meeting, clicking "photo" vs. clicking "my squeezy" to show the saved photos.
- Does not say which mySqueezy (ex. should say view Emily's Location)
- Hierarchy of application - better orientation within application (tabs?)
- Reorder screens in application (home page, not location should be first)
- No record of who sent picture (received photo page should have identification on it)
- Consider revising feedback to include more than faces
- Less text based response for younger children
For camera:
- How do I go back to main function?
- How do I move between pictures?
- Picture of Mom on the feedback msg.
- Text on screen difficult for child application (other indicators besides text)
- Selects 'mom' before taking picture when tasked to send a photo to mom