Migratory Bird Hunter Survey
Mobile Application
Digital Prototyping example of the USFWS Hunter Diary Survey
OVERVIEW
The previous Migratory Bird Hunter Survey utilized by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to monitor harvests by waterfowl hunters poses usability problems for the hunters, which in turn cause difficulties for the USFWS in interpreting the hunters’ responses.
USER RESEARCH
The first step to providing alternative interaction design solutions for the redesign of the survey is research: to understand the users of the survey and how they interact with technology, to determine industry best practices in survey design, and to develop some heuristics we will use to evaluate our draft solutions in the process of providing the client, the USFWS, with recommendations on how to improve the user- experience of the harvest surveys.
Persona: Karen
Persona: Jim
paper prototyping
User testing was conducted through paper prototypes. The users selected were based on the personas created that best represented the population who would fill out the survey.
USER TESTING
After the paper prototypes were created, a script was written for user testing. As a team, we conducted user testing with several participants. One person was the note taker, while the other was the facilitator. The facilitator read from the user testing script (view images), asking the participants to complete various scenarios.
DIGITAL PROTOTYPING
The collected data was then applied to the digital prototype, and thus more testing was conducted. After extensive user testing and data collection, the final prototype was created and presented to the client.
