Documented conclusions

Alexander Yordanov
Worst Designers Ever
3 min readSep 18, 2016

During all the tests, I tried to focus primarily on my findings and recommendations that are differentiated by levels of severity. I wanted to explained everything to the testers: What is this? How it works? Is it good enough…Actually, I supposed I have made some mistakes, because it is my time doing this, but overall I think people who joined the test were satisfied after it.

· Background summary — Last few days I tested a prototype, very similar to our stretching application with random peoples indeed. I made that test at Fontys University and at the local Sport center, very close to the TU. During the test, I presented that product first, then I asked some questions to the people, after that, they made a short test with the application. At the end, I wanted to know if they are satisfied or not. Stiliyan, one of the guys from the team, helped me with recording the videos. During the conversation and the test with the strangers, we had some issues with the noise around us and many people looked at us strangely, passing us. That’s why we needed to stop recording the process. Even though this, my personal view is that we had prepared pretty good, so we didn’t waste a lot of time of the testers.

· Methodology — If you want to recreate the test or to make a similar test, my first advice to you is to present your product to the people. On the second place, you can select some questions to ask him or her to understand if that person is interested in. One more thing is, you need to be sure what kind of people you want to interview. In our case, we talked with students, around 20 years old. Some of them work, some of them not. The choice is yours!

· Test results — Well we tested the application with three people. They had to do some exercises related to stretching of course. The test was very short, so the only one thing they needed to do is was to follow the exercise on the mobile phone. Of course, some of the people had problems doing that short training session, but they have tried and actually they did it. They shared with us that they don’t have an experience with stretching so it was pretty normal to have some mistakes. But even though this, I can say that they surprised us with their passion and all of the tests are more than successful in our eyes.

· Findings and Recommendations — Loool! It’s time for conclusion! As I said, I think people who joined in the test were satisfied, using the application. But of course we need to change some things, to improve the performance of the final product. For example, I think it will be much better if we make the design simple. I have seen some of the people have struggled with the application. It shouldn’t be in this way. Furthermore, I think it will be good if we add some description for the exercises, because it is not enough only to watch how the boy or the girl is to do it on the screen and to repeat it. You need to know is it good for your body and things like this. Alright, now it is time for the advantages. We thing the product is pretty correct, because you can see how many calories you have burned during the training session or how many minutes remain until the end of it. So it is something very important. Moreover, the application has a big variety of exercises, so the user has a big choice for training.

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