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After bringing Samigo up on my local desktop, I've (JLR) just gone through the process of creating a survey, publishing it, then taking it as a user. Here are some immediate responses to the process:
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- The authoring side is bulky - lots of buttons to click and steps to take, the layout of the screen could be much much cleaner.
- It's frustrating to only be able to add one question at a time
- The choice of answers is not intuitively presented
- Typical programmer-style development: the flexibility/customizability is impressive, but it's just not organized well for the simplest case usage. For example: when I want to "publish" the survey I have to drill down under "Settings", open a hidden layer, then set three dates with no explanation of which date does what... this needs a serious facelift.
- As I mentioned to Kirk and Lisa - I think it would make sense to provide a (new tool/interface?) that provides a very straightforward, wiki-style single page editing of the test/quiz/survey - presumably this could be plugged into the Samigo service.
Big picture from a survey-taker's perspective:
- I got this screen with lots of technical info before I took the survey. None of it made sense to me if I'm just taking a survey. Think the questions should be the first thing I see after an optional text intro provided by the author.
Nit-picky issues:
- I entered 'feedback' for both questions, but never saw anything when I answered them – maybe I missed a setting? I clumped the two together into one page, and maybe the feedback only works for one question on a page, but still... not sure how I should know this if I'm a user.
- The formatting left something to be desired in the test taking.
- I'm not sure why – if it's a survey, I see 0.0 points next to each question, or why the questions aren't set off in boxes or something to make it clear what's happening.
- There's too much indenting going on – if I have a single 'part' to the survey, then why show that?
- In the default skin at least, there's just too much white on the screen.