User tests Wireframe

User test 18/03/22

Info about user: 18-year-old student who has been competitively playing chess for 10 years.

Menu

I see there is a place to enter results, but is there a place to view them? If not, I would add that as an option. When viewing, I would want to see the results for all rounds combined, maybe as a list with player name and then the number of points. I don’t see a use in viewing results only for one specific round.

Add results

Still don’t see a place where I can add how many tables I have, but I like this way of adding the results better than the last one I was shown with the list.

Tournament set-up

Oh okay, there is the table feature! Would maybe have liked for the tables to be an option from the menu.

Edit a player

Yeah, seems nice.

Player list

Maybe instead of showing the results for each round one could only show the accumulative score, potentially combined with an overview showing the number of wins, number of draws and number of losses.

Add a player

Like how you can access add a player both from the menu and from the player list.

Potential changes based on the user study

• Show number of wins, losses and draws in the player list

Changes based on the user study

• Show accumulated score of players in the player list

• Add an option in menu to add number of tables available at the tournament menu

• Add an option in menu to view results

User test 04/03

Info about user: 18 year old student who has been competitively playing chess for 10 years.

Menu

Clean. Easy to see my options.

Edit a player

Like that there are two ways to find players, but you may consider changing it so that you can only search by name or club ID as I don’t see how being able to search by rating or club is helping me narrow it down.

Also, what happens if more than one player is found? Am I then allowed to chose which one to change?

Add results

Good, kind of inconvenient how the list goes from person A to person X as you usually enter results after each match, meaning that if player A and K played you would have to remember all the results, or write them down on paper, before being able to enter the results. Maybe change so you can enter table number, then enter results of the players?

Tournament set-up

Seems good, but where do you enter the number of tables you have?

Add a player

Nice, contains all the information you need.

Player list

Good. Like how you can access all the player related tasks in the player list as well.

Changes based on the user test

- How to enter results (enter per table and not in a drop-down list)
- Only search for player by either name or player ID
- Add place to enter the amount of tables

User tests MVP

User test 25/03/22

Info about users: 18-year-old student who has been competitively playing chess for 10 years.

The user was given a series of tasks to preform running the MVP as an .exe file on their own computer while sharing the screen so a member from the team could see what they were doing.

Add a player

Successful: Y

Contains all the necessary info, easy to add players and intuitive. Like how you get to see the range for the number inputs.

Edit a player

Look through list

Successful: Y

Nice to look through the list, especially for smaller games or if you’ve misspelled the name and can’t find the player through the search function.

Enter info

Successful: Y

Was told that I needed to change the info of the player named Per by searching for his name but didn’t initially understand what “Enter info” was supposed to mean. Maybe change to “search by name”

Match set-up

Successful: Y?

It let me set up a match, but it also let me set up a match between the same person, which shouldn’t be possible. This set-up would only work for smaller tournaments as it is quite time-consuming (because you’re basically setting up the matches yourself, the program just saves it.

Add results

Successful: Y

A bit confusing that add results is a part of the match set-up. Was expecting them to be two different menu options. Writing both people’s names work, but it’s not ideal. Liked the enter table thing we discussed before better.

View results

Successful: Y

It’s nice to see the score for each player, but to improve it would have been nice to see the number of wins and draws (like you can in view player). Would also like the list to be in descending order.

Other comments

Would like for the menu to show up every time I go back to it as it’s hard to remember my options.

Potential changes based on the user study:

• Separate Match set-up and Add results into two menu options

• Descending order results list

Changes based on the user study

• Make it so that a player can’t play against themselves

• Change phrasing in certain parts of the program

• Improve Match set-up

• See number of wins and draws in view results