10b, c, d & 8c
Feedback received & action taken(ii)
My own evaluation of prototype
Fitness for purpose/audience
I am very pleased with the overall composition and theme of the product as a whole. I am convinced that choosing to model the website on the church's external notice board continues the church's image and forwards the purpose of product as well as appealing to a wide audience. It is contemporary yet neutral in the sense that it will not put off any from older generations.
The Flash invitation slideshow and the multi-lingual scripture box fits well into demographical context of the church's locality. Hounslow West is truly multicultural and the church's membership reflects this. We are all one in the Lord Jesus Christ and the website celebrates this fact very well.
Informal evaluative feedback from client
Below is a transcript of me getting feedback from the client via Skype.
- [03/04/2007 23:29:23] David Hollands says: this is the second prototype of the website
- [03/04/2007 23:29:23] 袁志榮 says: ok, would be cool to see
- [03/04/2007 23:29:47] David Hollands says: i've been a bit busy with maths, english and my other units documentation recently sorry about the wait
- [03/04/2007 23:30:07] David Hollands says: http://remza.co.uk/hwec
- [03/04/2007 23:30:22] 袁志榮 says: well, make sure you balance all you work out
- [03/04/2007 23:33:13] David Hollands says: do u think the front page is missing anything?
- [03/04/2007 23:37:49] 袁志榮 says: looks good - if slightly overwhelming at first...
- [03/04/2007 23:37:55] David Hollands says: lol
- [03/04/2007 23:38:08] David Hollands says: is tht cos it includes ur face?
- [03/04/2007 23:38:12] David Hollands says: ;)
- [03/04/2007 23:38:15] 袁志榮 says: partly :)
- [03/04/2007 23:38:31] David Hollands says: u think the slides are too quick?
- [03/04/2007 23:38:31] 袁志榮 says: you might want to slow the flash box slightly
- [03/04/2007 23:38:34] 袁志榮 says: :)
- [03/04/2007 23:39:42] David Hollands says: that can b adjusted v easily
- [03/04/2007 23:39:49] 袁志榮 says: indeed
- [03/04/2007 23:40:16] David Hollands says: it's a php file at the mo
- [03/04/2007 23:40:23] 袁志榮 says: k
- [03/04/2007 23:40:47] 袁志榮 says: you might want to collapse the site map a little as well - possibly too much information on one page
- [03/04/2007 23:41:10] David Hollands says: kk
- [03/04/2007 23:42:06] David Hollands says: so then is it an improvement??
- [03/04/2007 23:42:35] 袁志榮 says: yup - looks more contemporary
- [03/04/2007 23:43:02] David Hollands says: cool
- [03/04/2007 23:43:28] David Hollands says: ive made use of ur scripture js
- [03/04/2007 23:43:37] David Hollands says: thought it was cool with the foreign langs
- [03/04/2007 23:43:38] 袁志榮 says: will be interesting to see the site when it is complete
- [03/04/2007 23:43:41] 袁志榮 says: hehe
- [03/04/2007 23:43:55] David Hollands says: yer
- [03/04/2007 23:44:19] 袁志榮 says: not sure if you need more than one scripture reference on the front page - makes the page a little busy
- [03/04/2007 23:45:10] David Hollands says: the genesis poster is another xml gallery
- [03/04/2007 23:45:18] 袁志榮 says: ah - cool
- [03/04/2007 23:45:35] David Hollands says: that could be easily replaced by an advert for say. holiday club
- [03/04/2007 23:45:44] David Hollands says: fetham bible focus
- [03/04/2007 23:45:55] David Hollands says: inspiration
- [03/04/2007 23:46:11] David Hollands says: at the mo its on random setting
- [03/04/2007 23:46:16] 袁志榮 says: k
- [03/04/2007 23:46:26] David Hollands says: but only has one img in the xml file!!
- [03/04/2007 23:46:31] 袁志榮 says: just wondering if the box is large enough....
- [03/04/2007 23:46:49] 袁志榮 says: if you're going to be doing spot ads for something like holiday club, might need more space
- [03/04/2007 23:46:57] David Hollands says: I think it is, i've been creating some different images for it
- [03/04/2007 23:47:10] David Hollands says: look here
Test user-group feedback
I organised a peer review meeting with my Applied ICT colleagues. They are an interesting bunch and I find their 'fresh' and laid back approach to life very intriguing. They are very opinionated on a board spectrum of subjects let alone website and multimedia production. They are most definitely well qualified to give their opinions on my product and any other multimedia product for that matter.
I wanted to establish their views 'on the whole/together', with a corporate slant, attempting to foster the professional project management skills we are learning in unit 8. So in the end I decided not to create a boring questionnaire, ask each of them to look at the prototype and answer the questions as fully as possible but I did something else. I used the electronic whiteboard to display my current working model and page by page ask them to make comments with strong justification.
To my surprise some wanted to get 'hands-on' with the prototype themselves. Opinions started to come by the dozen. The horizontal sub-navigational turned out to be a complete failure in everyone's eyes! "It's too close to the main buttons at the top." "How are you going to fit all that you want to contain in the article and audio archive section in it? More than one horizontal list will make the top half look even more cramped," was a very insightful comment. This meeting ended up being much more productive than just giving out the prototype and a questionnaire to everyone.
Action required:
I must take account of the comprehensive feedback received from the client and the test users. The one thing that struck me the most was that both the main stakeholder (who is 30+) and my peer reviewers (who are all around the age of 18) both insisted that the home page was too crowded. "Only provide one sermon on the front page," ... "possibly too much information on one page," were all valid comments and I will incorporate this feedback when shaping, refining and completing the design and development of the product.
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