I feel that the card-sorting method will not give us enough answers to what we’re searching for. Through this method, we would know how categories are grouped and the most important information that our consumers would need to run the app, as well as the direct way that users would access the information from the app and where they would find it. However, I feel that during the interview with Mary we had a good sense of what she and other pilots wanted from an app and have grouped it together in a simple format.

Again I wouldn’t want us to use the tree-testing because I feel that our app has a simple enough architecture within it. Like the card-sorting method, I don’t think that we need to go over a hierarchy of information. Testing would need to be more direct task-based than a hierarchical information one.

I’m finding myself more inclined to work with the first-click testing. This would allow us to understand the pathways that our app’s consumers would use to get certain tasks done. Our entire goal is to make the preflight process quicker and easier for pilots. This would help us achieve our goal by knowing the pathways that our consumers take to get tasks done, and where we need to localize the information on the app.

Once we know where our consumers are spending most of their time on the app, and how they interact with the app to get features done. This will allow us to design an app that helps our users get their tasks done quickly as well as help display information that they need to complete their preflight training. This will allow us to build a successful app that helps our clients and allows us to reach our goal of making preflight easier.