Citizen Science: Finalize Design

Well this is the final part of the Citizen Science project with decent results I feel.

First off .. here is a link my final version of my Trash app.

https://xd.adobe.com/view/d92a2c0a-7d72-43bf-7658-7484141c17e1-af1b/


After my feedback sessions I had a number of items that I needed to clean up or add.
Here is a few items that was changed for the final version.

1. Through out the application I made sure the button size was greater than 44 pixels in height. This caused trouble throughout the testing with the buttons difficult to push due to their size.

2. I completely forgot to have a continue button on the introduction page. This was added because the process flow stopped without it.

3. I better identified the account links by underlining them. This shows that they are links and makes the user aware of the active link.

4. Also changed up the gaping to clean up the page a little. During the testing process there was some confusion what the boxes where linked to because of the closeness of the boxes.

5. Added a link to the statistics page from the start page; This was added because some times a user might just want to look at the data instead of catalog something new.

6. Moved the location bar from the bottom of the screen to the top for better view. It seemed to get lost at the bottom of the page with the help link and other details.

7. On the catalog page added a sort button that includes alphabetize selection and popular. This will now allow users to have personal preferences on how the catalog list is organized.

8. Grey out the screen to show that is not active during the review process. I wanted to make sure the user understands while in the review process that no changes can be made.

9. Cleaned up the camera link with a larger button and not listing the bulk add page to remove the clutter from the left hand corner.

9. Cleaned up the statistics page by adding a personal and location for the amount of trash that was collected. With multiple selections it makes it better for the user to clearly interpretation what data they are seeing.

There was also mention of what happens when the application doesn't have access to service.

I would think that it would not work correctly due the map linking as with google maps not working with no service. 

Citizen Science : User Testing & Accessibility

This section is about user testing outside of the college and different types of users to be covered. Here is my testers and the results. 

Color-Blind: This wasn't a person test, but to load images from the application into a website that mimics color blindness. I did the version of green color blindness and red colorblind. With the colors I picked the red was the worse of the two and actually not bad enough to make changes in the color.

Normal log on screen

Red Color Blind

Catalog Screen

Red Color Blind

Red Color blind shaded

Original Splash Screen

Visually Impaired: Test for the visually impaired in one of the following ways:

• I went with someone who has far-sided vision (can't see close up) to test the app without their glasses. My sister normally wears glasses most of the time and has trouble seeing them without them. She had questions about the location on the map that I plan to resolve in my fixes. The other findings was some way of sorting out the trash found. 
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Motor Impaired:  Test for the motor impaired in one of the following ways:

• The requirements for this is the tester may ONLY use the thumb on their non-dominant hand to interact with your app.

• Pictured is my niece using the app, she is a left hand person normally.  Her findings were the buttons were difficult to push because I was not following the 44 pixel requirement for button sizes. Otherwise found it interesting and had very little trouble getting around the application.

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Older Generation: Test someone who is over the age of 55.

This test was done by my mother in her Seventies, the feed back I go was trying to understand why someone would want to collect trash for free. Had a lot of questions of what kind of company what Citizen Science was. Most of the questions about the application was off topic and more about college based questions, had to keep refocusing her on to the project at hand. Not having a lot of experience with phone apps there was a lot of basic questions of information that normal users do not have.

 Anyone: Conduct your test on anyone.

The final tester was my brother in law, first off he didn't care for the color of the application but more of a personal choice than an aesthetics one. Liked that it only had a few steps to get everything done.  No real technical issues but also complained about the button size that I will address in the final version.