Websort

This cool tool should be very useful for doing cardsort testing.  A colleague of mine has used it in usability testing and was very pleased with the results and level of analysis, especially since it’s free if there are under 10 participants per testing round.  I’ve sent the link out to the rest of the UDT and hope to get a chance to use this soon.

 -Miguel

Personas

The User Research Subgroup is finishing up our first round of personas, getting them ready for next week’s UDT meeting.  We have one primary persona (undergraduates) and three secondary personas (upper-level transfer students, faculty, and community users).  I’m working on the transfer student persona.

 It’s pretty satisfying to be able to apply all the data and analysis to an artifact like this, and doubly so as the persona really does help bring the data to life.  I’m excited for the next step, when we begin using the personas to inform the design decisions.

-Miguel