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Usability study outcomes and the practical implementation of feature-request enhancements
Thursday, February 27, 2003

Some regular visitors may have noticed some modifications and enhancements to this web site. These were due to an ongoing study of the usability and interactivity of the interfacing elements of the CubicleDweller.ca product. Based on intensive consultations with user advocates, subject matter experts, usability professionals, and a small cluster of tree frogs, our investigative team put forth a timeline for which we actioned a proposal for mitigating errors in product-user interactivity. Our continued envisionment of forward-thinking initiatives will impact on the increased presencing of the CubicleDweller.ca product as never before within the area of weblog user advocacy, entertainment, and big, greasy hamburgers.

Weeks of intensive focus group consultations have yielded the following data from our focus group panelists:
  • 12 panelists felt the site was too narrow.
  • 11 panelists felt the site was too wide.
  • 8 panelists had difficulty with the words "sticky" and/or "note".
  • 6 panelists could not locate the coffee urns at the side of the room.
  • 1 panelist felt that the word "the" was confusing.

Resultatively, the actioning of these findings were implemented in such a way that led to the following feature enhancements:

  • The "sticky note" text area is now yellow.
  • Coffee urns are now marked with flashing beacons to visually indicate their presence at the side of the room.

As we move forward in the coming quarter, we are anticipatory of an impactful pleasure-to-word target ratio on this site, increasingly expectful of leveraging the outcomes the resulting interface usability enhancements for activity traction, and— Oooh! Flashing coffee!






Fresh words...

»Cubicle Rule #491: Wash your coffee mug

»Temptations of the flesh

»An expensive month

»There once was a man from Peru

»Les pommes frites de liberté

»Minus one

»Dutch hash on a Sunday morning

»The world's foremost authority

»HTTP 500

»Flattery

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