Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Summary Hints




In our example summary, what's important?



  1. Excellent hints!

    One more...

    Frobble: Often a Summary uses marketing terms (like "frobble"). Find out what these terms mean to the stakeholders, and understand what they mean to your testing efforts.


  2. Let me add to Joe's comment. Once you figure out what "frobble" means to your stakeholders, be aware of "you" that must be able to frobble according to the summary. This is a hint that the user is in charge of the frobbling. Therefore, it must be intuitive, with a high focus on usability. Basically, if a user requires a help page to find out how to do this, it's not intuitive enough.