Tuesday, August 24, 2010

...and the Survey Says...

Yes, this line was taken from the "Family Feud" gameshow, popular for surveying average people and using the results to determine where contestants ranked.

The Survey group met today to hash out the appropriate questions needed to get the maximum benefit from the campus feedback. Information overload (ergo unnecessary useless data) is a common pitfall of projects this size. We hope our questions will give us the quantifiable, granular data needed to build a site suited to the specific needs of the Coppin Family.

Among the subjects considered were:
  • An audience based set of questionnaires focused on Task Completion*
  • Harnessing the information needs of those served by the pages we create

The final questions will be rolled out in a day or two, keep posted.

*Task Completion is a phrase you'll encounter several times here. It refers to the operation of a web page by purpose. Most individuals go to a site to do something, complete a task. Rarely do people read all the data on a website, but people seek out "hot zones" where their functionality is concentrated and perform the action they set out to do. Building a site with this in mind leads to better results.

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