Brenda+test+result

Participant 1 (group):
PRO - Likes how there is no light box popping out of the website (gallery page) - Likes the panorama effect - Fit well with the York university website - Not a lot of external links - “white” background seems find for the site CON / suggestions - In the facilities page, it was difficult to find the studio. The participant did not understand what they are clicking on. This is because there is only image based links. The user suggests having headings or text rollover on the image. - In the gallery page, might want to include a link to the course. - News and events should be placed in the homepage. - There is no information about what overall GPA needed to get into this program - Talks about having headings à division between pages

Participant 2 ( me and wen):
PRO - Easy to navigate back to homepage no matter where the subject searches through - News and event is not that important shouldn’t be placed in homepage. - Likes the interactive part of the website - BIG improvement from the previous site è Information easier to find

CONS / suggestions - Did not notice there is a left navigation in the left panel - Again, it was difficult to find the specific studio because no label. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Mentions how the left navigation merge with the news and event… thought news and event was the same with the left navigation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Might want to include student awards/ scholarships <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Confusion between faculty and facilities

** Participant 3 (individual): **
PRO <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Academically the site looks good, but on the creative side does not meets it <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Wants some colours CON/ suggestions <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Always click on current students ( when asked to do a task) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Might want to include some kind of colour <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Academically the site looks good, but on the creative side does not meets it <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Always click on current students <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Clicking on the image ( thought the image was clickable) in the future student imagery <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- For gallery images, did not know the image is clickable <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- In the gallery page, might want to include some student awards. And list what level the course is in. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Might want to highlight current student awards <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Better imagery might want to be incorporated à panorama- feels that the “current students” should have students in it <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Mixed with the word facilities and faculty

**Participant 4 (online + individual)**
PRO <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Looks good overall <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Well formated CONS/ suggestions <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Adding some information about visual arts program on the homepage itself like what they teach <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- What is the rank of the university <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- How popular is it in the world <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Section related to future students <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- Would suggest have a separate section for financial aid itself

** Summary of Findings: **
Highlight information I got from participants: - academically pleasing - does not see how York Visual Arts is different from other visual arts program - might need to include some colour or something - In the facilities page, all the participants find it very difficult to find the specific facilities because the studios weren’t labelled. - include headings that will divide up the information. - some more hierarchy in our information. For instance, one participant mentioned how he/she didn’t notice there is a left navigation because the “news and events” merge the information. - want to highlight student awards and some current events that will draw current students to the program. - There are mix feelings whether we should make “news and events” in the home page or not. - Some information we forgot to include is the course requirement and overall gpa needed to get into the program. We don’t want an external link (ouac) to the information because we want the information to be easily assessed. -Information we might want to include is if we want to transfer to visual arts from another program. We find out most of the participants was interested in current student work and to see if they can also do the same work. - the “current” student link seems to be very common link to click even though it was not meant to be clicked. For example, when asked to look for student work, users like to click on current students. - work on imagery in the panorama

The overall testing went pretty well. Users were able to find information. Some challenges I found from the users is the fact they like to click on the current student links a lot even though we told them you are a future student. During our group discussion, we did want to include some colour, because it seems like our site seems to be too plain. However when ask the participants if we needed to include some colour in the background, the user seems unsure. This is because it is an academic site and some white space should be incorporate. They did not mind the white space in the overall site, and seems to be pleasing to the eye. However, most of them do agree that there should be some more division in the information. There are some areas where the information seems hidden. In my opinion, the website seems to be very functional; the only changes I might make are including some information in the current students. Moreover, make headlines that make better division between each page. In the facilities page, there should be rollover text that names the actual facility instead of just an image. Also, there seem to be confusion between faculty and facilities because they seem to be in similar spelling.
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