Week 7 — Probe
Using our probe in our user research & beginning to make
Agenda
We have finished designing our probe and used it on a participant today during the studio time as a test run. We will continue to interview this week to answer the question:
How much effort will users be willing to put into their daily logging interactions?
After answering this, we will begin our prototyping and wireframing process with this better understanding of what kind of content and interaction features to apply in our application.
The Probe
We first laid out cards for what we are trying to track and what kinds of interactions would be applied to each question. This was partially similar to an affinity diagram where we were able to organize our thoughts for ourselves, and also apply it to the probe.
We wanted to create a sort of cardsorting activity where participants could prioritize which kinds of questions and features would be the most effective and that they would be willing to do everyday.
We then created a probe toolkit to help participants better visualize what we mean by each interaction, based on applications or forms of input that they might have already seen in other apps they use daily. We considered using lofi drawings or just taking screenshots of existing competitors features, but we figured it would result in more objective data if we standardized all the features ourselves and would give participants a clear idea of what we mean.
Monday we interviewed a user from our previous interviews, and we will be updating the results from it soon.
Use CAPs bulletin board to test probe and gather data, possibly through a QR code online survey?
Questions we will ask participants:
- Which is more low effort?
- Which do you think is more effective in data collection?
- Which interaction makes you heistant about data privacy?
Final Probe Toolkit
We tested the probe with a classmate not for usable data, but to see if the instructions for our probe activity would make sense. She was confused about what the “Daily Events” card meant, and naturally mixed and matched interactions with other categories.
