Research and User testing

After sketching the first wireframes and creating the first digital low fidelity wireframes, I began my user testing to see if there were any challenges in the main user flow that needed to be fixed. I gave four people a monitored usability study that lasted only ten to twenty minutes and took notes on how they interacted with the design and their user experience throughout exploring the low fidelity prototype. I learned a few insights through the feedback from the user study, and I prioritized them from most important to the user flow to least important. The most important pain point was that participants found the drag screen at the bottom to be particularly confusing, they did not know how to interact with it. The second priority pain point was that they were confused as to why the menu option and the search option were so close together. I fixed both of these issues by changing the drag screen action to tap screen and sharpened the edges, for the next pain point I sent the menu to the left side of the header and kept the search option to the right, putting the logo in the middle of the header.