Today I conducted user testing on my application and as usual I’m glad I did as it showed me a few areas for improvement, through user testing I found:
A capital letter that should not have been there, a wrongly labelled button, some text that was not aligned properly and extra space where it was not needed. These may seem like trivial errors but they can make the difference between a professional looking application and an amateur application. I also found a couple of other things worth talking about, one user noticed that the curser displays differently on a side due to our rotation of the screen and suggested using a custom curser, maybe a paintbrush. I considered this and realised that a touch screen application such as mine should not use a curser as it may provide confusion for users, a cursor makes the user think "How do I get the arrow to do what I want?" When really all they need to do is interact directly with the functionality of the application.
I also noticed that when the users where dragging the slider on the timeline a menu kept appearing, I have done some research and hopefully this issue may now be resolved.
User testing is always useful and should never be ignored, without user testing my application would have unresolved errors that I did not find on my own.
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