Formative evaluation - Web Strategies for Health Communication

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Evaluation

Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, Course Director

Tufts University School of Medicine

July 18, 2012

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Where we are

Existing digital strategy

Goals

SWOT

Personas

Competitive analysis

Design

Content

Technology

Evaluation

New digital strategy

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Site maps and wireframes

• A site map depicts the layout and flow of a site

• A wireframe is a representation of a webpage or its components and is usually low-fidelity

• Wireframes provide the general page structure and content requirements: the general layout of controls, text, and graphics

• Typically visual design and precise layout are not addressed

• A site map and wireframe provide the information

architecture of a site and can be reviewed and evaluated

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• Website of New England

Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) had grown organically, users were unable to locate crucial information. Content was focused on grant recipients over potential grant sponsors, but site needed to serve both audiences

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Evaluation of health websites

• Why evaluate?

• When to evaluate?

– What do you do after launch?

• How to evaluate?

– Expert reviews, heuristic and formative evaluation

• What to evaluate?

– Does the site meet the needs of first time visitors?

– Does the site meet the needs of repeat visitors?

– Does the site encourage/support active use?

– Is the site appealing, usable, and effective?

Expert reviews

• Expert reviews are conducted by “experts” from multiple perspectives and focus on the site using the knowledge of the expert in a domain

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Heuristic evaluations

• Heuristic evaluations use a set of heuristics or a checklist

– Does the site meet certain usability criteria

– Does the site meet the stated purpose

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Formative evaluation

Formative evaluation is a type of usability evaluation that helps to "form" the design for a product or service

• Purpose of formative evaluation is to obtain user feedback during the design and development stages of a project

• Feedback is generally in three areas: appeal, usability, and effectiveness at accomplishing a task

Formative evaluation can be conducted on concepts, paper prototypes, screen mock-ups, a working prototype, or an alpha release, with the goal of using the feedback to improve the design at the earliest possible stages when the cost of making changes is lower

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Four steps for formative evaluation

• Formative evaluation has 4 steps:

– planning the sessions

– conducting the sessions

– compiling the results

– prioritizing the results from the sessions

Formative evaluation process start plan sessions review and prioritize conduct sessions issues detected compile results redesign

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