Semafores Blog Testing...Testing

Over the last few weeks the Semafores team has started the process of testing Curi , our mobile social application for family caregiving, while development progresses. For the time being we're demonstrating our user interface (UI) using a prototype we created using InVision, a web based application for creating and sharing clickable prototypes for web pages and mobile apps. We decided early in the process of creating our prototype that we would need to give our testers a guided tour to get the most out of the test. Curi is a complex application with many moving parts and making it seamless enough for our testers to wander at will would have taken months-time better spent in sharing the design and creating the working version. By giving our testers a tour we can direct them to the parts of our design that we want to learn about, and avoid the extra effort of creating similar screens and mocking up parts of the application, like help screens, that we felt we could safely leave for later.