Research Project Artefact 2

Testing
For my second artefact I have chosen to test some apps and their websites physically on some of my family, friends and my neighbours on my street, I have had 25 responses.

I have chosen these seven apps because they also have a responsive website, another reason why I have chosen these apps because from my first artefact I had a lot of responses from these types’ of apps.

•These are the apps that I will be testing.

•BBC News

•Starbucks

•Pinterest

•Flicker

•Instagram

•Facebook

•Twitter

• I asked the people to compare the Apps against the websites.

• The question I asked them were:

• Which one is easy to use?

• Do you find the navigation menu easy?

• Can you find your way around?

• Which one will you prefer to use?

• The devices I used for the test were a Apple iPhone and a Android tablet.

For BBC NEWS I got very good positive feedback for the App and the website, people were happy with the app and the website.

One thing that was pointed out a lot about the app was that its to boring and not as much as interesting as the website, but that was only on the Android App. However, they were happy with the iPhone App.

I was amazed that people liked both of them I thought that they will like only one of them, I also tested it myself and I did not find something different between them too.

Starbucks App was not very easy to use on the iPhone, as you went to the App it was too boring and when you select the drinks it gives you a lot of drinks and it was not appealing or interesting, people said its too boring because its got too much text.

On the android table the app was not working, when I went on to the android App market it said, “Your Device isn’t compatible with this version”.

People liked to use the website both on the iPhone and Android tablet, they find it a lot easier to get around the website and they said the navigation was very easy to use and understand.

These responses show me that both on the iPhone and the Android tablet the App is not very good and useful, this shows the website is better than the app, I believe that Starbucks have gave more attention to their website than their App.

For Pinterest I had very similar positive answers for both the App and the website. People were happy with using the app and the website and they could navigate around it easy on both. No negative points were pointed out.

The feedbacks I got for Flicker were positive, the people were happy using the App and the website on both platforms, there wasn’t much different between the Apps and the websites.

But a lot of more people liked the iPhone app than the Android App, they said its more easier to use, has a more easier interface and they can also take photos and upload it straight away like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc.

For Instagram I got both negative and positive things pointed out, everyone was happy with using the App on the iPhone and Android Tablet, they were saying its very easy to use and to navigate around.

The website on the iPhone was good as well but not as good as the App, people said that they would not mind using it than the App but one thing was pointed out a lot that on the website you could not take the photo and upload it straight away.

The website on the tablet was very bad you could not do anything, you could only see what your friends photos, you could not even go to your own profile.

For Facebook I had very good positive feedback, everyone was happy with using both App and the website both on the iPhone and the Android Table, people found to use both platforms very easy. No negative points were made.

For Twitter I got very good positive feedbacks for both the App and the website, everything was the same on both platforms the iPhone and the Android tablet. Everything was easy to use and you could navigate around easily.

Conclusion

After doing my second artefact, it shows me that there isn’t much of a difference between the App and the website and the different platforms of operating systems. Comparing Apple IOS to Android IOS there is a little bit difference between them, most of the Apple Apps are better than the Android Apps, comparing an iPhone App design to an Android App there is a massive difference between them, the iPhone App design looks better.

For example the “Starbucks” app is working on the iPhone but on the Android its say’s “Your Device isn’t compatible with this version”, so this doesn’t make an sense; why would you have an App working on iPhone but not working on android? Or why would you even have App on the App store that would not work?

I have come to a decision that I believe the website would be better to have, because if you are making an App for both platforms I think it wont look the same on both platforms as I have found out in my experiments.

I believe that if you make a really high standard responsive website it would be better than the app as I have found, for example the “Pinterest” App you can’t tell the difference between the App or the responsive website.

When you have downloaded an App it uses space and if you don’t have no internet connection it will not work, for the website you don’t need any space because its on the web but also if you don’t have internet connection it will not work, but on the iPhone for example you can add a webpage to view or read offline which means you can view a page or something when you have no internet connection.