Usability Testing 4 - Feedback & Refinements
User Group - Mid 20s - UI Designer
My main objective stays the same with all users - Get an overview of how easy the app is to use, the layout of the onboarding and startup screens. Also, to figure out if any features didn’t work as anticipated.
What They Liked
Really like the onboarding cards and how they look like you're flipping through a book!!
LOVE the little fade animation when you selected the books you've read before.
The bookshelves are really good and have some nice shading on.
Illustrations are nice (love the 'Welcome to Bookmark' guy with his coffee)
Like your 'Books Read This Year' feature. Really nice to see your progress. It's a big motivator.
Your little book illustrations are and have a lot of depth on the 'Books' screen.
That 'Journey Begins' screen is actually so cute. LOVE IT. Also as I'm writing this I've just seen that he's lifting books as well. AMAZING. I'd love to see some more of the achievements illustrated.
Achievement titles are really cool and are playful.
What they said needed improving
I don't know if this is just on my end, but the last onboarding card doesn't show for me (the fourth one). If there isn't one there, I would remove the fourth dot as it looks like there is extra content I'm missing out on.
I was expecting the back button on the Login/Create Account screen to take me back to the onboarding cards.
I would maybe put the clickable link on the 'What genres do you love reading?' screen at the top, just so the person using the prototype doesn't have to scroll for it.
I would maybe remove the '(Choose at least five)' bit of text, as someone that doesn't read often that might be coming to your app to try and build their reading habit, they might not have read five. They might have only read one.
The back button on the home screen logs the user out. I would maybe remove the back button from there and put the logout button into the settings (You don't want the user to log out of your lovely app so easily)
What I learned & Changed
This feedback was beneficial, and the fact that there were so many positives helped put into perspective how much time I spent redesigning Bookmark this semester. A lot of people loved the award illustrations, and two said they would like to see more, this was one of my original goals at the start of the semester, but unfortunately with the deadline getting accelerated I didn't complete it.