User Tes$ng Session: 80 minutes • Equipment: Audio-‐Video Recording with Screen Capture Demographics • Age 18-‐40 years • Internet Usage Over 6hours • English Proficiency – Good-‐Fair-‐Fluent • 5 Competent Users and 5 Beginners
the facilitator Task1: How … cheap book flight and hotel? Task2: How … payment? Task3: How … compare trips? Task4: How … find flight with specific =me? Task5: How … find hotel with specific loca=on? • All the task are aimed at the main tasks that the website is supposed to perform. • Conforming the heuris;cs
in Hipmunk have higher success rate than in Ontravel • Only “Find the how to pay” in Onetravel is more than Hipmunk 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 Find Flight and Hotel Find the how to pay Compare Price Find Flight w/ specific $me Find Hotel w/ specific loca$on Number of success Task Success Rate for Each Task OneTravel Hipmunk
for 4 tasks • Learning from task (Find Flight and Hotel vs. Compare Price) • Anomaly in “Find the how to pay” Find Flight and Hotel Find the how to pay Compare Prices Find Flight w/ specific $me Find Hotel w/ specific loca$on Onetravel 8.5 0.9 6.0 5.7 4.8 Hipmunk 6.1 1.5 5.6 3.1 2.9 0.0 2.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 Time (min) Average Time on Task
was the overall task? (1 very easy -‐ 7 Very Difficult) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Find Flight and Hotel Find the how to pay Compare Prices Find Flight w/ specific $me Find Hotel w/ specific loca$on Average Score Task Perceived Difficulty OneTravel Hipmunk
(1 very easy -‐ 7 Very Difficult) • Q2: the ease of comple$ng this task. (1 Strongly Disagree -‐ 7 Strongly Agree) • Q3: the amount of =me it took to complete the task (1 Strongly Disagree -‐ 7 Strongly Agree) 0 2 4 6 8 Find Flight and Hotel Find the how to pay Compare Prices Find Flight w/ specific $me Find Hotel w/ specific loca$on Average Task Average Score for Onetravel Q1 Q2 Q3
Confirmed The majority of the par$cipants do not no$ce the "Vaca$on” tab. 4 Make the label more obvious e.g. Flight + Hotel or give a pop up descrip$on when user put the mouse over the tab)
RECOMMENDATION Lower severity Booking steps are confusing (the user do not know that their flight is pre-‐selected, and have trouble finding a way to change the flight) 4 => 2 Make it more clear for the user to change flight.
REASON Higher Severity Lot of informa$on in the page that the user missed many things, (can't find the “tripAdvisor” score, can't find show map buron, can't find the Change Flight link) 2 => 3 The User struggle in finding informa$on e.g. One user did not know they did wrong search
REASON Lower Severity Checkout buron is not clearly visible, there is not explana$on about the 4 => 1 All user manage to find the way to make payment quite easier using buron at the buron of the page.
REASON Lower Severity Unclickable breadcrumb. “How should I go to the next step” 3 => 2 It seems that users are naturally press browser back buron to go back instead.
RECOMMENDATION New Browser Back Naviga$on does not work properly: it go back to the loading page and send the user back to the result page 2 Allow user to go back each step using this browser back buron.
RECOMMENDATION Confirmed No single map showing the loca$on of the hotels. 4 Adding a single map illustrate loca$on New Confusion between Star Ra$ng and TripAdvisor 3 Confusion between Star Ra$ng and TripAdvisor New Difficult to compare when choosing hotels with 2 or more quali$es 4 Adding filter or secondary sort func$on.
RECOMMENDATION New Unclear label for Selected Search Date, Des$na$on, 2 Make the Search Date more prominent Con firmed Sort by requested $me does not sort by requested $me. 4 Sort by requested $me Raise Severity Near-‐by airport result 2 => 4 Only show result from selected airport, or give op$on for user to hide near-‐by airport.
perceived OneTravel as more useful, or more reliable. “I think I am willing to spend $me learning how to use OneTravel, because I Think it is more useful “I will rather trust Hipmunk than OneTravel. Hipmunk look like student project”
RECOMMENDATION 1 “Vaca$on” Label 4 Choose a word which describe the func$on more clearly 2 Sta$c-‐Looking Loading Page 3 Add clear progress indica$on 3 Sort by requested $me does not sort by requested $me. 4 Sort by requested $me 4 Near-‐by airport result 2 => 4 Only show result from selected airport 5 No single map showing the loca$on of the hotels. 4 Add a Map View
and Hotel Find Flight and Hotel Find Flight and Hotel Find Flight and Hotel Find Flight and Hotel Onetravel 8.5±4.4 0.9±0.6 6.0±3.2 5.7±3.4 4.8±3.4 Hipmunk 6.1±3.3 1.5±1.2 5.6±3.1 3.1±2.7 2.9±1.8 (Unit: min)
checkout • The buron as right side is a shortcut to pay. • Another one is at the end of page, user has to scroll down to click it and read through page. 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Time on Task (min) Par=cipant Task =me of Par=cipants (Task 2) Onetravel Hipmunk