Phase I: Usability Testing
For Windows 10 or above.
Download SALTT V0.2.0 with file structure
This link to some Google Drive space opens my SALTTDownloadArea folder. Download the SALTT folder – google should zip it to Downloads on you machine.
Unzip it to C:\.
You might need to go through some security checks and download a .net thing. If you are OK with all that then Launch:
C:\SALTT\net10.0-windows\MendelApplication.exe
There is a Loadable example file in the tutorial to look at:
C:\SALTT\ProjectDemo.xml
I will send a usability testing evaluation form when I have finished it.
SALTT was developed by me, for me, to unscramble my head and get my life in order. It is thought that it may be of benefit to others with Common Mental Health Conditions (CMHCs).
What I am looking for in terms of usability testing (Phase I) are:
- User Experience (UX) condiderations alongside those of the the
- User Interface (UI). Ideally, I am interested in whether SALTT’s operations are intuitive and relativly standard such that a non-expert user can dive straight in.
- I’m also interested in why people would not use SALTT; there may be many good reasons for this including: not being able to see a use for SALTT, having a more relevant application, or simply having no genuine use for it. But I’m particularly concerned about cases where users are being put off because they are finding SALTT akward to use.
Initial usability testing, however, is put to an audience of expert users. This sample is not assumed to have CMHCs (that group will be approached in later phases of the trials). To make the test meaningful to expert testers, it is suggested that they might use SALTT in some project management capacity, or perhaps some use I haven’t thought of.
SALTT was not orignially intended for project, time, or task management: there are other applications out there. But my experimentation suggests that it is also able to support such purposes (because it is a more derived class of a general graph theory implementation which can be adjusted to enable a number of applications.) Because the testers might find project management aspect of SALTT beneficial, a guide will be produced here as for use of SALTT (in its current form) for project management and usability testing.
The first way it can be used here, is in mapping out, assessing, and prioritising projects that you want to do: visualising the array of what might be done, and selecting the most promising.
The second use is in organising and scheduling tasks to-do within the selected project.
A couple of tutorials will assist in a project management graph.