User Testing - Round One Go!

We kicked off this week with our first round of User Testing!

Our research question going forward was how do people perceive the different features of our product. Or more specifically in our case - how do people perceive the different movements that Yumi performs during the drive, in the beginning of the drive and at the end of it.

But first - we needed to create our moving prototype! Now don't laugh, we did what we could with the material we had and taped some cardboard to a piece of wood.

We then went to our car and filmed a variety of stop-motion GIFs for Yumi's movements - Forward, Backward, Arm Wrapping, Flying Up, Bow, Half a turn, Vibrations, Lying Down and Lay Back:

We tested the GIFs on 6 different potential users and presented them with our scenario:

"Pretend you're driving your car and have a device that holds your phone and sits on your dashboard. Throughout the drive, when you enter the car and when you exit the device performs different movements. Please tell us what feelings these movements stir up - what does it remind you of? What do you think the device is trying to tell you? What does it signify to you?"

We segmented the test results into 3 categories: Movements as a response to a positive action, Movements as a response to a negative action and Movements as a response to both positive and negative action - depending on the context.