Project 3-Trunk Test

Well, I gave the trunk test to six of my friends concerning the "Men's Felt Hats" page in my redesign project. I got a variety of results. I have listed the results in order from shortest to longest amount of time to find all of the elements in the page:

Participant 1: 34 seconds
Participant 2: 38 seconds
Participant 3: 44 seconds
Participant 4: 50 seconds
Participant 5: 56 seconds
Participant 6: 75 seconds


On last Thursday in class, we were instructed to apply a Gaussian Blur with a radius of 1.5 pixels to our web page and print out some pages for people to look at. Each participant had to find six elements to the page. They were:

1. Site ID
2. Page Name
3. Main Navigation
4. Secondary Navigation
5. A "You are Here" indicator
6. A Search Option

I found that a lot of the participants had trouble locating the secondary navigation of my page, or they were confused to what the secondary navigation actually was. I remember giving them hints like, "what would you think the secondary navigation is?" or "where would you look after you selected from the main navigation?". The amazon.com site was also brought up as an analogy to think of tabs for navigation. The participants also were pretty much talking the whole time while they were trying to find the web page elements. Some would go in order from the list that I gave them and a few would start with the items that they definitely knew (i.e. the search box).