#useability

[theformerastronomer]

@staff I understand that you need ad revenue in order to run this platform, but for fuck's sake if you're going to have video ads that ignore our autoplay preferences, could you at least set them to auto-mute?

[cynosuredesigns]

Usability refers to how successfully a user can use a product to accomplish a specific goal. User experience encompasses an end user's entire experience with a product. 

[willowfae82]

you know how at the end of fics on AO3 there’s the thing what you can click that says ‘top’ and it takes you back to the top of story (instead of having to scroll all the way back up). i’m curious how much work/hassle would it be to add that function to the story list. 

[javascript-for-her-blog]

Contextual Inquiry

After some deliberation following last class’ project idea brainstorming session, our group selected to prototype the Power of Language Suggestion Tool for the purposes of this class. We decided to call the product MIRANDA in honor of a Professional Communications professor at RIT who stressed the importance of powerful language in the workplace. In this case, MIRANDA stands for Metacognitive Inline Reader Administering Non-submissive Dialogue Automation.

Today’s lecture covered Contextual Inquiry; the act of interviewing and observing your target audience perform the task which your software seeks to improve, or face the problem your software is designed to solve. We were tasked with planning out a rough interview, as well as finding and executing this interview plan with 5 women in computing. In addition, our team decided to give the same interview to a few computing students who do not identify as feminine, to really understand how our problem space uniquely affects female computing students.

[Expand this post to read about our awesome interviews we will be conducting]

For our interview plan, we decided it was best to try to open with some simple friendly banter, then cut right into a scenario-based activity. We considered opening with some contextually relevant questions, but the decided that by suggesting we were looking for patterns in grammatical structure and vocabulary, that it could lead the interviewees to use language they otherwise may not have.

Our first scenario should play out something like this: 

You’re working at main headquarters, but your boss works from a remote office. You feel you deserve a raise, and you happen to know that a male co-worker with identical qualifications and slightly less work throughput makes more than you. A female friend of yours in the office confides in you that she agrees you deserve a raise, but mentions that your mutual boss can be unreasonable at times. Write an email to your boss asking for a raise.

This situation is designed to put the interviewee in a position where they have tools at their disposal that they could use to ask for a raise- the idea that a comparable co-worker earns more with less to show for it. We hypothesize that the female subjects we interview will use less active voice statements, and vocabulary that is less demanding than their male counterparts.

As a secondary scenario, we want to analyze how women speak differently in technical discussions than men might. For this situation, the interviewee will be shown a pull request written by someone with a clearly masculine username, and be asked to leave comments about the code they see. This code will be intentionally low quality, so there should be plenty to write about. We want to see how strongly they express their technical opinions to a male co-worker, on a project they are told they have stake in.

In closing, we will finish the interviews out with questions regarding how the interviewee felt about the scenarios, their feelings about their writing, and any similar situations they’ve experienced in the classroom or on co-op. Questions like, “Have you ever felt anxious to leave technical feedback to a co-worker?”, or “How many times do you re-read through an email before sending it?”.

We hope the information we collect from our peers will help guide us to design a solution experience that helps the user navigate these situations with more ease and less anxiety, that empowers them to succeed and excel in their field.

[inquietstrength]

Why did Tumblr make the reblog button and the like buttons that horrible light grey color? It’s so damn hard to see!

[qualityaicterecognisedjr]

Are Seo Software Outdated?

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[casmo-blog]

A better email tool

Whenever I write a letter, especially a draft letter, I usually write the text first. The reason is simple: texts tend to evolve, and may end up being about something completely different from what I set out to write about.

Paper is not forgiving, in that a mistake requires me to cross out or apply correcting fluid to the text. We believe our electronic tools are much more forgiving. But they are not.

Email applications are not fit for email

Case in point: email applications. The way in which they are set up invites mistakes or waste of time. Think about your favorite program. In all likelihood, it asks you for the email address of the intended recipient first, then for the subject, then for the actual text. However, that is not how you work. You know who you are writing to, but the subject line may well evolve throughout the actual writing of the text. And with the change in subject matter may well come the realization that other people need to be informed about the contents of your message.

However, few people take the time to revisit their subject lines or to reconsider whom they add to the already filled in recipient list.

There is one tool I have been using on iPad and Mac and that I miss on my iPhone: Ulysses. This markdown editor has a dazzling array of features, among which is a diverse set of export features. Any email I write starts right there, in that application, in markdown. Forts I write the text, then I write the tittle, which is the subject line, and only when I export as a mail, I add the subject line.

Mails have the time to develop and mature. I have no flashing send button imploring me to share whatever complete or incomplete considerations with the perhaps inappropriate but most certainly incomplete list of recipients.

So, Soulmen, kind purveyors of this app, when will you bring this tool to iPhone? And thanks for developing such a great tool.

[cumlaws]