Learning Targets
- Run tests according to the protocol.
- Collect user feedback, observations, measurements, or performance data.
- Record results honestly, including problems or limitations.
IED Unit 5 • Lesson 5.12
Prototype Testing and User Feedback
Focus question: What evidence shows whether a prototype is successful for the user?
Mission Briefing
Today’s Plan
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Success Looks Like
You can run prototype tests, collect user feedback, and record evidence without changing the results.
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Opening Prompt
What evidence shows whether a prototype is successful for the user?
Connect your response to the decision, evidence, or quality standard required for Collect Prototype and User Evidence.
Reveal: useful engineering move
This lesson is ready to move forward when the evidence meets this standard: The evidence is complete, ethically collected, and traceable to the approved plan.
Core Skill
What We Are Practicing
Testing should reveal the truth, not prove the team was right.
User feedback can show needs that performance data may miss.
Honest evidence makes revision stronger.
Your Task
Collect Prototype and User Evidence
Run the approved tests and feedback activities while recording results, observations, comments, and limitations accurately.
- Complete the setup and safety check.
- Run the planned performance trials.
- Collect feedback without leading the participant.
- Record unexpected results and limitations without deleting unsuccessful evidence.
Quality check: The evidence is complete, ethically collected, and traceable to the approved plan.
Lesson Interactive
Interpret Prototype Test Results
Use the trial data and user comments together. A design can meet a performance target while still revealing a usability issue.
Completion-time trials
Trial 1
Trial 2
Trial 3
Trial 4
Trial 5
Mean
Performance target: mean time ≤ 9.0 s.
Choose the evidence-based conclusion
Calculate the mean and compare it with the target, then identify the repeated user-feedback theme.
What You Will Submit
Capstone Test Evidence
Submission standard: The evidence is complete, ethically collected, and traceable to the approved plan.
Resources
Lesson Resources
Lesson 5.12 PowerPoint
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