ECT/HCI 441
Homework 4

  1. (5 points) In this question, you will review the content analysis you performed in Homework 3. On a piece of paper, list the groups of related items that you created as a result of your card sorting. With each group, list the group name that you created to describe it.

  2. (10 points) Make a screen dump of the current home page of your current web site. Draw circles around all of the group names that are currently present on the home page. If a link currently has a name that's different from the group name you've chosen, make a note of that on the paper copy of the home page.

    For each of your groups, how many of the content items currently appear on the home page? For each group, mark the relevant items. You may want to develop a labeling scheme for this or you may want to print a separate copy of the home page for each group.

  3. (20 points) 1) On paper, make a wireframe (or sketch) of your revised home page. 2) Explain in report no more than 2 pages long, how you will use the results of your: user testing, card sorting, and the techniques of content and visual organization to revise your home page. Describe how the home page will be changed, and the reasons for the change. If an item does not have to be changed give justification for why it will remain the same.

    For the next two questions the revised pages do not need to be hosted on a server. They can be html pages accessed locally on a disk. Also you do not need to spend a large amount of time revising graphical toolbars, you can simply use text toolbars if you wish.

  4. (21 points) Create a new version of your revised home page.

  5. (21 points) create at most three revised secondary pages for your web site. These page should be the ones involved in your user testing. Describe in a report no more than one page in length per page, how the page has changed and the reason for that change.

  6. (20 points) In a 10 minute power point presentation which you will give in the last class (June 3), describe the process of changing the home page and the secondary pages. Include the results of you user testing, the card sorting, and any other reason for changing these pages. Describe how you used the techniques of content and visual organization, color, page design, and any other factor involved in the revised design. Note that you are basically presenting the the written report from questions 4 and 5. The idea it to show the process of how the site has changed as a result of user testing and the usability techniques discussed throughout the course. At least one member of the group must make the presentation.

  7. (3 points) List each team member's contribution.

Deliverable
 

Due at the beginning of class, papers containing answers for:

  • Question 1-5
  • Diskette or email zip file containing the revised html files and the power point presentation.
  • Question 7