Activity 2
1. General Survey
The purpose of the survey was to gain information from the visitor of the website on how much knowledge they know about cars.
Survey were taken by 5 people, 3 out of 5 chose budget car, 1 chose sport car, 1 chose super car. 40 percent of those 5 people likes Ferrari Super car, 100 percent likes Lamborghini, 60 percent likes Maserati, and 60 percent likes Aston Martin. The average rating of Aston Martin V12 Vantage Super Car for its design is 4.80, its interior is 4.60, its exterior is 4.50, its performance is 4.80, and its breaking system is 4.20. Ferrari model in which for those 5 people like the most is the 599 Fiorano and 458 Italia score 40 percent.
2. User Needs
For this survey, there are 5 people surveyed.
Question 1 - What do you think is unnecessary on the main page?
From the survey on this question, I found out that 83.3% of the people had chosen that the Advertisement, 33.3% for Visitor Counter, and Date and Time are unnecessary on the main page.
Question 2 - What is necessary on the Car Review page?
33.3% of Rating Scale and User Comments, 50% of Video Sample and User Review, and 16.7% of Send to Friend Button and Print Button are necessary on the Car Review Page
Activity 3
From the paper-based card sorting with the other students, I categorized it into 5 categorise:
Home- Automobile News
- Videos Preview
Cars
- Car review
- Price
- How to choose a car?
- Videos
- Car Photos
- Cars for sale
Contact Us
- How to contact us?
About Us
- What is our purpose?
- Where we come from?
- How we became a car review website?
- What we offers
Help
- How to use the blog?
- Frequent Asked Questions
Activity 4
Advantages:
- The website's ability to create accurate result
- Be able to choose the type of the output of the result
Disadvantages:
- If there wasn't a video tutorial on how to use the websort.net, it is very hard to use
- Very hard to use for new users
The pictures below are the example of the output result from the online card sorting websort.net:
Activity 4
a). User needs:The majority of the users doesn't want advertisement on the main page of the blog, while the minority choose to not have visitor counter, and date and time.
On the Car review page, Video Sample and User Review, it has a very high demand from many users.
The users also request for hugh amount of videos to be put down on the blog because they want to see how the performance of the cars.
b). My car blog website is similar to many other reviewing websites, from the user requirement on how the user is expected to interact with the system, most of the users are familiar with the car review websites will be able to interact almost the same as the other website easily with my car blog website. The menus are on the left side, the links are very easy to navigate and straight-forward. The videos and the reviews are on the middle section of the page.
The visitor counter is at the bottom of the page, and same as the date and time of the server that the website is hosted at. There will be many car videos as the users requested and that also applies to the photos, reviews and the user reviews.
c).
Goal: To read a Review of Toyota Camry
Tasks: Read Review, watch videos
Action: Navigate to the correct Car Review page, and choose Toyota from Make
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Task 1: User visit the car review blog
- Action 1: Browse through the website
- Action 2: User look at each navigation link
- Action 3: User search for car review page
Task 2: User reads Toyota Camry review
- Action 1: User navigates and choose Toyota Make
- Action 2: User clicks on Camry Model
- Action 3: User clicks on Year
d).Different kinds of requirements for the blog:
- Some users want the menu and navigation links on the top of them page, not on the left side of the page.
- On the review page, some users doesn't want the photos, and only the videos are fine.
- The minority of the people, doesn't need the help us page because they are familiar with the blog.
