Denim Evaluation #1
Method
- focused on usefulness (premise) & usability (artifact)
- 7 professional participants
- Task: design “ForRent.com” web site in 60 minutes
Results
- Web designers rated it highly in
- usefulness, communication w/ team, expressiveness, speed
- “Illustrator has got attributes that have to be dealt with, and it interrupts the thought process.... It’s nice to be able to get rid of all the business with object attributes. That is such a hassle.”
- …but found it lacking in terms of
- handwriting, linking pages, communication w/ clients
Acting on the results
- fixed most of these problems, while adding new features
- over 3000 downloads of DENIM in the year since