Outreachy GNOME usability testing wrap-up


The December-March cycle of Outreachy has finished, and I wanted to do a quick recap of the work from our intern, Clarissa.
As I mentioned when we started week 1 GNOME usability testing, most of our work in the internship was testing designs that haven't gone "live" yet (this is called "prototype usability testing"). Allan and Jakub created mock-ups of new designs, and Clarissa did usability testing on them.
That means a lot of the applications were still being worked on, and were often delivered in Flatpak format since these "in development" versions were not part of a systemwide release (which would have likely been included natively in a Linux distribution somewhere).
As a result, we ran this cycle of usability testing in a more "loose" fashion that we have in previous cycles. We didn't have a long run-up to usability testing, where we could take our time learning about usability testing and carefully constructing new scenario tasks. Rather, Allan provided an overview of what he was hoping to get out of each usability test (how do users respond to this new feature, do they interact with the user interface differently, etc?) and Clarissa had to quickly assemble scenario tasks based on that. I helped with focus and wording on the scenario tasks.
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