Hi Corey,
this is an excellent idea. I went through the whole test and enjoyed - the design looks good.
I was confused by the tasks, and their relationships to the pages that were displayed for each.
Some examples.
Task 1. Where would you expect to find information about the Museum’s inaugural activities?
You present the home page and so I would choose a main navigation item (as everything else is in faux latin).
Task 2. Where would you expect to find information about the architect who designed the Museum?
Here I start to get confused, as I don't understand what you want me to do. I'm not on the home page anymore and from the tiny breadcrumb I gather you are showing me the Explore section, although I would probably also highlight that in the main navigation. But am I now supposed to just choose a secondary navigational level? Or you are testing to see if people get the main navigation right (I would not, as I would have clicked on Visit in that case)? Or the task is really too simple - there is a heading called "Explore the Architecture" although even that has faux latin text.
Task 3. Where would you expect to find information on how to plan a grade 5 school group visit to the Museum?
Following from the previous, and from the crumbs I know I'm now in visit. No obvious heading here (all lorem ipsum), so I gather I have to choose a secondary navigation item.
And so on.
My recommendation would be to do this in stages or sections, if you want to get more usable results. For instance, you may check a number of tasks agains the main navigation, rather than combining main and secondary navigation for your tasks. Then eventually start drilling down for more specific or other tasks.
Another thing. If you want a realistic test, I'd create some real copy - without using lorem ipsum, as that may well be ok for the design community (and I belong there) but it's confusing to other types of audiences.
But this aside, the design looks very good.
Best, Cristiano
On 13 Mar 2013, at 18:44, Corey Timpson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> If you have 5-8mins please feel free to test our site in dev. (Phase 1 -
> planning and design, interface design test #3 - graphic design 01). The
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