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SCN Beta - my two cents..

tomas-krojzl
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I tried the Beta as part of New Mission Available: SAP Community Beta Tester blog...

I tried to find the mission definitions anywhere but even after 10 minutes of clicking I was unable to see where the missions are located. I started to think missions in Beta were disabled... I gave up trying to find missions... then found the "About" page - http://go.sap.com/community/about/reputation/overview.what-s-coming-next.htm that is saying badges will come next - so really not there? Then later found them as blog List of SAP Community BETA Missions - SAP Blogs... Interesting...

Here is generic feedback...

It really looks nice but following needs to be priorities:

  • priority 1: it must work under all conditions - so far no issues observed
  • priority 2: it must be fast (less then second response time) - I did not observe any slow loading issues but you need to make sure this will continue to work fast even after GA when used by many users...
  • priority 3: it must be simple to use - I think this could to be improved - it might be just me but during my first moments I was totally lost - I knew WHAT I want to do but I was unable to figure out HOW do I do it... I was unable to find missions, I tried to get out from blogs to "some other" parts starting to believe there is nothing else then blogs.. 15 minutes later I discovered it is actually hidden in top bar among other links going away from the site... I would expect this to be more obviously placed... etc. => you should consider to do Usability Testing in controlled conditions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing
  • priority 4: nice UI - it looks cool...

Personally I would prefer to "compact" the information on the screen - I am having huge monitor - on left and right I see 10cm of empty space, then in the middle I see just few huge entries (blogs, answers, etc)... It looks cool but I need to scroll a lot to actually find what I need... Can the space be better utilized? Two columns? More dense?

Answers: "Page Not Found" on main page on first try - unable to replicate the issue so assuming it was eruption on sun that caused this.. When typing in what I am looking for I would expect that the engine will offer me the keywords (Google style) rather then search results - also when I typed in "SAP HAN" I had no hit until I completed "SAP HANA"...

Overall looks very nice - just please make sure that priorities above are met in the right order - if the site does not work or is slow then users will not appreciate it is having beautiful design...

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Hi Tomas,

great support from IBM if i may say so.

thx, greg

tomas-krojzl
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Thanks Greg... two of my friends are doing design and I got quite extensive education on what is Usability Testing and how important it is... need to agree they were right 🙂