Crit and Useability

 Before Crit I undertook a usability test of my first completed book. I showed it to a number of people to gauge their feelings about the book. Most of the feed back was positive, people had no problems with the navigation. The interactive content was easy to understand and the liked the flow and general look of the book. However one comment did ring in my ears and that was when did James text start and the introduction end, they also confused by the headings on one of the pages.

Acting on the comments given I have removed the heading clearly stated that part of the writings different from the story is created to James. 

Small change to page

 Crit as always was an enjoyable experience. I like opportunity to see others work and how they have come up with creative solutions to fill the brief. I partially liked Lucy and Jamie e-book. They came up with ideas that to my mind fill one of the key ideas of and e-book, that is the book has to create its own world and all the elements are in keeping with that world. For my part the crit of my book was very favorable, an obvious omission was pointed out. That being a silhouette of a man in the window of the house, this being key to the story. It was also pointed out that the image of a hat was interfering with the text on one of the pages making it hard to read. Lastly an issue of one of the videos needing a slight purse in the audio. On reflection I felt that the text on the front cover was to small so I have increased it as well attending to the elements brought up in crit. 

The entire book

Since refining my e-book I have undertaken further useability test and have had nothing but good and positive response from those who have tested the e-book.