I asked a buddy of mine who is a Mechanical Engineering student to use my app. He's pretty tech savvy, and I frequently subject him to my coding shenanigans.
For the first task, I simply asked him to mess around on the app without telling him much. He had to go and download an audio file first, then he put it in to the site and started the playback. From there he figured out the add/remove title buttons.
For the second test, I asked him to add titles to his favorite parts of the audio file, then delete them. He did this just fine, but didn't like the UI.
For the last test I asked him to use the app as he would see a use for it. This was an issue, because as the app stood, there was no real use case, he suggested a few things to me that would change that.
To combat these issues and to complete the assinment I'm going to do three things.
1: Implement a way to save the audio segments.
2: Add a "Clear All" button to the segments, becuase my test user complained about that.
3: Add a volume knob, and make skip to end, go back to start buttons.
Test Summary
Related Links
Reflection
Through this process I learned that users are annoying. On a real note, I learned that I did the bare minimum on the app and it made it useless. It had very little functionality and poor UI elements at first. If it weren't for a user test, I wouldn't have touched this app again, and I wouldn't have actually taken a look at how terrible it was.