Interesting findings, more about conducting the testing in these contexts & the script & environment itself. I think you’d find it useful.

This was the test environment I used.
http://p1.drupalusability.org/content/d7ux-test-environment

There were two scripts prepared by Bojhan. I could only test with 5 users. I had difficulty getting new users who wanted to attend the sessions. So none of the users was a “Verity”. I don’t think any true veritys were there. I only had one true Jeremy, with a open source CMS background and no Drupal experience.

There were some problems with the installation. It needs a little testing. As well the theme threw up some problems. The test scripts themselves could use some fine tuning.

I won’t ramble on too much here.

I’m not sure what the next steps are?

My videos are here: http://vimeo.com/hjames

(as of writing this comment, I have one more video which is processing I will post)

Leisa, I assume you’re in talks with Bojhan.

1) I am going to do a session on how-to-do user testing, and get people excited (hopefully) about user testing.
- I will film the process, and help promote it to get others excited about your crowd-sourced usability testing idea for D7UX.

2) I am going to sit down at a station and invite people to sit with me and user test at the event. I will have a special installation of D7 which will include some pivotal patches, mentioned above.

3) I’d like to have a ‘dummy’ site (obstacle course) as well with some dummy content in it, to test out some of the patches in situ. I have only a short time to work this plan out, so I do need to chat with someone about this idea. What should be in it, taking into account various patches?

At the moment, I am trying to become familiar with all the recent D7 UX changes and their issue queues, so I can be aware of old territory.

It’s important to me that I do this efficiently, so as to not waste time, and to make a useful contribution.

In that line, I’d like to test the script before the event. I can do a simple user test with a Verity and Jeremy before the event. I hope someone can review my videos and tell me if I’m doing anything wrong.

Also important to me is what to do with videos afterwards in terms of tagging them, and linking them to the appropriate issue so developers see them, and UX people see them.

Quite a bit to consider, but with some planning, it could hopefully be a model to follow.

We’ll definitely be using Seven as the admin theme, but we’ll need a site theme in addition.

Yes, I think part of the testing kit will be some dummy content prepared and provided to participants, this was also the case for the Baltimore testing so, again, we may be able to reuse much of what they have already created.

We’ve got a plain D6 theme, but it’s subclassed from Mothership so I don’t think it’s going to be as easy to convert as its plainness suggests.

Could there be some mileage in running this round of testing on Seven, to iterate on the test results that have already been incorporated into it?

I am keen to test patches which are stalled for various reasons and need user testing. I am going through the list and trying to get a sense of where things are at.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/26409

We’re having a DrupalCamp at the end of September in Belfast.

I have been talking with Bojhan, who said he is preparing an updated script. I saw him talking to someone in IRC about a new theme for user testing.

For the beginning user would it make sense to have already prepared dummy content? As in some kind of obstacle course: where the user can see what needs to be done more easily.

What do you think?