g3-Project+Brief

Contextualization: Project Brief
<<user testing stage Group 3: Annmarie Akong, Edeline Bernal, and Joanna Poon

We are graphic design students from the York/Sheridan Program in Design who are working on a website redesign for the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art or CCCA's Canadian Art Database. Our focus is to develop an easier way of accessing and presenting information that would cater to the needs of potential visitors and better their online experience. Our goal is to make the database a platform that would facilitate learning, exploration, and discovery of art.

First of all we would like to thank you for your participation. As a way of testing the website, we are going to show you a prototype, or a mock-up, of what we are currently working on for the Canadian Art Database. We will be asking you to read certain tasks which you will attempt to perform on the website. For this purpose, we encourage you to speak out loud your thoughts and actions during the test so that we may understand your thinking process. Please be assured that we are not testing your abilities, but that you are helping us test the website so that we may look for ways in which we can improve it.

If you think you have completed the task, or are unable to do so, please let us know by saying you are done. At this point, we may be asking you questions that would help us further understand your experience. Please be advised that during the test we will, as much as possible, refrain from helping you accomplish the task and rather allow you to do it on your own as this would help determine the effectivity of the design.

We would also like you to keep in mind that the website is still in its construction phase and that if you ever come across a link that is not working, you will be notified and directed to proceed with the test. If you feel in anyway uncomfortable in taking this test, please be aware that you have the right to stop the test at anytime and choose not to participate with no questions asked.

Again, we would like to thank you for helping us evaluate our website. Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let us know.