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www.karenchurch.com
@karenchurch
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Presented by Jonathan Rubin, MA, & Katherine Spivey, MA, on March 13, 2015 at the fifth Center for Health Literacy Conference: Plain Talk in Complex Times.
Great products address the real needs of real people. Many companies risk bringing products to life without hearing customers' needs because their design teams don't have a way to bring the customer "inside" where product development happens. UX designers use personas to represent real customers so the design process focuses on addressing real user needs.
When design teams take advantage of personas, they see faster development times and better quality products. The entire team is on the same page and the designs satisfy users’ goals.
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More details: http://mm2.tid.es/mhcitutorial/
Karen Church
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Telefonica Research
www.karenchurch.com
@karenchurch
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Boston Mini Upa2011: Localization Research Presentation by Jennifer Fabrizi and Anna Bradley
1. Localization Research:
If we can do it, so can you!
Jennifer Fabrizi
Anna Bradley
Boston UPA Conference
May 25, 2011
2. Introduction
Jennifer Fabrizi
Lead of User Experience Research and
Design, Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company
Anna Bradley
Currently Interaction Designer at
Memento Security; previously at
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company
3. Agenda
• Our story
• Background
• Study One: 2009
• Study Two: 2010
• Why the findings were different
• What we learned overall
4. This is the story about how 2 user experience practitioners
figured out how to conduct usability tests with
in-language participants and moderators
and learned a lot in the process
Our story
Jen Fabrizi Anna Bradley
8. Marketing Research showed…
Hispanic Americans
• Have a lack of trust in financial institutions
• Depend on family and friends for advice
Relationship development with agent is key
9. Marketing Research showed…
Chinese Americans
• Are averse to debt accumulation & personal
gratification
• Planning for longer term: protecting future
generations
• Rely on experts for advice
Agent as expert, company stability and financial
performance are key
12. Recruiting
Multicultural Testing = nuance of localization
• 5 Hispanic-Americans with Spanish as first language
• 5 Chinese-Americans with Mandarin Chinese as first language
• Pertinent pre-screener requirements:
• Emigrated to U.S.A. prior to age 16
• Current age 35-65
• Vendor support:
• Bentley Design and Usability Center for review
• New American Dimensions in Los Angeles to recruit and hire
moderators and translators
13. Conducting the Study
Testing Room:
Spanish or Chinese speaking
moderator and participant
Observation Room:
Court-certified synchronized interpreter,
note takers, and observers
Morae
recorder
Morae
recorder
Synchronized
Translator
Moderator
Participant
One of us
taking notes
Hosts and observers
14. Conducting the Study
Testing Room:
Spanish or Chinese speaking
moderator and participant
Observation Room:
Court-certified synchronized translator,
note takers, and observers
Morae
recorder
Morae
recorder
Synchronized
Translator
Moderator
Participant
One of us
taking notes
Hosts and observers
Lots of Talking Points
on this slide!
Multicultural users = nuance of localization?
Details of the study:
• In-language moderator; usability script translated into Spanish and
Mandarin
• Used a court-certified synchronized interpreter to provide live,
real-time translations into English into the control room
• Traveled to Los Angeles; used our mobile Usability Lab (Morae on 2
laptops) to record the participant sessions and translations
• Used Camtasia to remove the audio of the in-language sessions
and replace it with the translation audio
• Used Morae Manager to pull clips to play for stakeholders; also
provided full in-language .wmv files
• One glitch: Morae wouldn’t connect with a 3rd laptop running
Observer via the vendor’s network – learned that our mobile lab
had to have network ports opened!
15. What we learned
Chinese Hispanic
decision-
making
premium, coverage, customer service, reputation, branch locations/convenience
expectancy expected link to lead to fully-translated site
translation
quality
excellent with few exceptions (i.e., mutuality)
awareness low
general useful and informative
findability of
link
high low
translated
content
appreciated translated content as
data for decision making
partial translations seemed to be less
appreciated; translations seemed to serve
emotional need vs. functional role
visual design looks professional; Asian faces
evoked positive connection; liked
clean colors and information-focus
liked detailed information; colors were
cold
16. What we learned
Chinese Hispanic
decision-
making
premium, coverage, customer service, reputation, branch locations/convenience
expectancy expected link to lead to fully-translated site
translation
quality
excellent with few exceptions (i.e., mutuality)
awareness low
general useful and informative
findability of
link
high low
translated
content
appreciated translated content as
data for decision making
partial translations seemed to be much
more negative; translations seemed to
serve emotional need vs. functional role
visual design looks professional; Asian faces
evoked positive connection; liked
clean colors and information-focus
liked detailed information; colors were
cold
Warning!!
Our study was designed to test for users’ behavior when trying to find
links and figure out what they meant.
Participants also gave us feedback about attitudes toward aspects of
the site, including quality of translation, translated content, use of
color, and overall visual design. These are all important aspects of a
localization strategy for a site. We didn’t have such a strategy, so we
probed about these attitudes and presented these findings as
directional only to our internal partners.
If the original study requirements had been to do a behavioral and
valid attitudinal study, we would have used different recruiting
methods (i.e., a much larger sample size!!) in combination with a
different study design (probably remote-unmoderated via UserZoom),
followed by qualitative usability.
Our advice is to always make sure to report your findings in the correct
context!
18. Recommendations
A Typical Usability Error?
Setting Users’ Expectations
The in-language links didn’t set users’ expectations well in terms of
what the site provided. In-language content was not a full-translated
site; it was simply high-level content to reach out to these specific
markets in their own languages.
The links said “Spanish” and “Chinese”.
Recommendation 1 = change text to “More about MassMutual” in
their own languages
Recommendation 2 = change text of the title of this section from
“Browse by Feature” to “In-language Information”
Through a second parallel mass affluent study not covered in this
presentation, we cleared out the “junk drawer” by finding locations in
the information architecture for everything else.
Because findings regarding other aspects of localized design were
directional only, we could not recommend changes to visual design
treatment, content voice (which we heard was good feedback on),
how much of the site to translate, translated menus, menu design, etc.
Our recommendations aimed at being reasonable, cautious,
and inexpensive.
20. Design Changes Made
• As a result of the 2009 study the link text was changed
to be more in line with the true experience
• The text was changed to say “More about MassMutual”
in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and Korean
• In addition other links were moved to the menus (based
on a separate usability study with mass affluent
participants)
22. Setup and Recruiting
• The recruiting criteria were the same for this study as
for the 2009 study though the recruiting was done via a
UserZoom™ recommended recruiter
• This study was un-moderated,
done through UserZoom™
• Prototype had one working link
and one follow-up page
• Remote and un-moderated for
broad geographic access
• Questions after the clicks.
23. In-language Considerations
• All text presented to the user was translated into their
language
• UserZoom has a feature which translates the default
text and instructions
• All questions were asked in-language
• The Spanish-speaking participants replied in Spanish
• The Chinese-speaking participants replied in English.
We assume this was due to a lack of a Chinese
keyboard.
• Responses were then translated by the same team
who translated the original text
24. Findings
• All Spanish participants and several Chinese participants noted
that the in-language links should be located in the upper right
hand of screen.
• The Chinese participants found it easier to locate the in-language
link due to Chinese characters standing out more amongst the
text.
• All Spanish participants were fine with what they found when
they clicked on the link. They said it met their expectations.
• The Chinese participants were split. One participant mentioned
wanting to see the same homepage translated. One thought
they saw more fluff than content. Others did not comment.
25. Why were the findings different?
• The un-moderated study had nearly reversed results
from the 2009 study
• In an environment without another person present the
Spanish speakers stated they were fine with the site.
The Chinese participants on the other hand felt free to
state that they did not like the lack of a full translation.
• We believe that the un-moderated nature of the study
changed how both groups presented their opinion
• The altered text of the link also helped set the
expectation for the Spanish speakers, but it did not
help the Chinese speakers
26. What we learned
• In-language studies can be done on a reasonable
budget.
• There are tools out there that make it easy to splice the
synchronized translation in.
• Cultural differences have to be taken into account but
are influenced by adaptation to American culture.
• We were surprised by the different results but after
understanding them in a cultural context they make
sense.
• If we can do it, so can you!
28. Thanks for coming! Contact us!
Jennifer Fabrizi
Lead of User Experience Research and
Design, Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company
Anna Bradley
Currently Interaction Designer at
Memento Security; previously at
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company
jfabrizi@massmutual.com
www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferfabrizi
twitter.com/@jenniferfabrizi
abradley@mementosecurity.com
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anna-
margulis-bradley/3/b1a/7b3
Notes de l'éditeur
multicultural testing = nuance of localization
Set the users’ expectations more appropriately to what the site provides:
Both links said “In Spanish” or “In Chinese” leading users to think the link would take them to a fully translated site. Recommendation = change text to “More about MassMutual” in their own language.
Move other links into the information architecture, leaving only the in-language links. We felt this would increase findability of the links themselves.
This study was un-moderated, done through UserZoom™
5 participants who spoke Spanish natively and 5 participants who spoke Mandarin Chinese natively
Participants were presented a prototype which consisted of the public webpage and a working link to the entry page of the in-language content
All sessions were remote and un-moderated, to allow for broader geographic distribution of participants and to control costs.
Participants were asked follow-up questions after they interacted with the prototype.
Chinese respondents considered the site very useful and informative—and generally appreciated the amount of informative content and tools they could use for themselves.
Hispanics considered the website too visually simple and not colorful. The straightforward layout and design somehow gave Hispanic respondents the perception that Mass Mutual was fairly young and had not been around for many years (until they read it was founded in 1851)
Chinese respondents appreciated the written Chinese content, even in limited form, while Hispanics preferred either a full English site to only a partially translated one. For them, the effort seemed incomplete and half-hearted effort to win over the Hispanic population.