{"id":3040,"date":"2017-11-21T10:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T10:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2018-07-20T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:21:15","slug":"site-editor-user-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2017\/11\/21\/site-editor-user-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Editor user testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We gave them tasks which involved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>setting up a new site<\/li>\n<li>creating a new page<\/li>\n<li>editing <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2017\/08\/09\/school-pilot-building-blocks\/\">various block elements<\/a><\/li>\n<li>setting up a menu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall the usability seemed an improvement on Dreamweaver.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMuch cleaner. Not so scary looking\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSimple and straightforward\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The testing has managed us to identify a few issues which we plan to fix or add features in the future including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>undo function<\/li>\n<li>better visual cues to which sections are being edited<\/li>\n<li>improving preview for mobile<\/li>\n<li>improving text editing interface<\/li>\n<li>using Plain English to refine labels and notifications<\/li>\n<li>using effective alerts when deleting content<\/li>\n<li>providing contextual support when editing (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/digital\">image, copyright and accessibility guidelines<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>better defaults, such as refining character limits<\/li>\n<li>less obtrusive messaging<\/li>\n<li>refining the user interface with improvement to some layout and buttons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gave them tasks which involved: setting up a new site creating a new page editing various block elements setting up a menu. Overall the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/2017\/11\/21\/site-editor-user-testing\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17235,"featured_media":3053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79485,1],"tags":[79492,79485,79459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/webdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}