I decided to carry out some user research on primary school pupils. I started off asking them what they would like from a website.
Below is what they said:
Primary 2 Teacher (Term Topic on Space)
- Very visual.
- · Easy to navigate.
- · Basic information for P.2 level.
Primary 4 (Age 7/8 year olds)
- · Find out information to tell others.
- · Good information so we can find out things for our School Projects.
- · If there were lots of information it would take a lot of time to read.
- · If there was something at the bottom of the page you may not have enough time (We get 25minutes in the Computer suite/Library)
- · Like Good pictures so we can draw them.
Primary 7 Pupils (Age 10 and 11 Pupils)
- · Colourful animation
- · Video
- · A bit of information but not too much
- · Pictures
- · Easy to find information
- · Realistic Graphic animation (Conor age 10)
- · Pictures
- · Videos
- · Narrators
- · Easy to use (Laura age 10)
- · More images
- · Less writing
- · Good pictures
- · Real life pictures
- · Colourful
- · Big/large writing (Colm age 10)
- · I like pictures in colour.
- · I like when they are real information.
- · I like when it is all in one website and when you chose one page it only takes you to another page.
- · And not take too long to load.
- · You can search for images about whatever you are learning about.(Frank)
- · Lots of colour
- · Not a lot of information
- · Pictures
- · Moving pictures
- · Easy to use (Michelle)
- · Real life pictures
- · Videos
- · Narrators
- · Easy to use
- · Easy to read
- · A lot of colour (John age 10)
- · I don’t like loads of information
- · I like a summary that is detailed about the subject.
- · Something very clear
- · Simple to use
- · Easy to navigate.
- · Colourful. (Peter)
- · Colour photos
- · Videos
- · Not much writing
- · Step by step
- · Easy use
- · Colourful
- · Key information
- · Large writing
- · Real life photos (Brian age 10)
- · Good Colouring
- · Great Sounding
- · Not much Information
- · Pictures
- · Videos
- · Animation
- · Fast
- · Fast graphics (Niall )
- · Quick loading
- · High graphics
- · Narrators
- · Important Information (Sinead)
- · less writing
- · more writing
- · easy to use
- · quick processing
- · narrator
- · Narrator (Emma age 10)
- · More pictures
- · Not so much words
- · Easy to use
- · Not so many links
- · Make it fun to use
- · News in pictures and animation.
- · Colour (Jude)
- · Not a whole long paragraph but just the important details.
- · If it’s a school website not too complicated words for young people.
- · Bright colours of pastel colours for young people but not eye burning bright colours.
- · Again if it’s a school website maybe each class should have their own section.
- · If you’re talking about the man on the moon maybe say how long it took to get there.
- · I’d like a website to be colourful, animation big pictures. And it to have a narrator. And to have good graphics and quick loading. (Carol)
- · A bit of info
- · No colour
- · Real life images
- · Detail
- · Good info. (Ross)
- · Probably not bad animation and good advice or information or good colourful
- · Maybe old pictures with colour instead of black and white
- · And some words to see what really means. (Aiden)
- · Animation good punctuation not to wordie
- · Easy to navigate big writing. (Adrian)
- From a website I would like maybe some small facts and then the main information related to the person/subject and also pictures that you could title. I would prefer the pictures in colour just so it shows a bit more about the photo and on the website there should be paragraphs about the topic instead of one big piece of writing and maybe a photo related to the paragraph beside if you’re reading off that paragraph you can use the photo so you can have less writing. (Jackie)
Reflection
I will try to take this information on board and try to take on board suggestions what the pupils are looking from a website. I have realised pupils would like to see real life photographs ofthe people involved and the space craft. I also want to try to include videos of the launch and landing as I feel it would be very visual.