Help me usability test my website please?

Foxhound5366

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So I've done this about a year ago (some good tips from you all!), with lots of new work in the interim, so I'd appreciate a few fresh eyes to see if you can figure out what this is and how it works with absolutely zero introduction.

NB: you'll need to grant GPS location permission, but I am not logging that in any way so you're 100% safe.

The entry point I'd like you to check is this one (which works best from your phone ): https://www.overhere.co.za/findme/?gps=true

Please try it when you're outside (obviously), and try the "Fine-tune on map", "Help me pronounce" and "Share" (to WhatsApp) buttons.

If you're confused by anything, please let me know? I'm keen to keep refining it until it's intuitive.
 
What is the "drive here now" functionality for? I appear to be where I am already.

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scudsucker said:
Where do I live?



What is that underscore doing there?
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It shows you where the South Africa goes in the full country title. That's not set by me ... the mapcode system has standard country titles, so you basically don't have to worry about it if you're using my site in South Africa because I default the country code to ZAF for us. Makes it much cleaner.
 
scudsucker said:
What is the "drive here now" functionality for? I appear to be where I am already.

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That's was a special request that I coded in: if you go to overhere.co.za and use the the "Let me search" option under "Help people find me", you can then fine-tune to the precise location of wherever you want to go (e.g. somewhere that's just near some other POI) and then opt to drive there immediately (as opposed to plugging the POI into Google Maps and not being entirely sure where it's taking you).
 
Share to whatsapp:

1) share button styling is different to other buttons (Chrome on Android, portrait)

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"Share to" doesn't give me any obvious options, eg Whatsapp, but I assume that is an OS thing that you can't do anything about.

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Fine tune on map: that satellite pic is nowhere near where I am, and the header is cut off.
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Edit: double space / weird kerning between "enough" and "isn't"
 
scudsucker said:
Fine tune on map: that satellite pic is nowhere near where I am, and the header is cut off.
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Edit: double space / weird kerning between "enough" and "isn't"
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What was the GPS accuracy before you clicked fast-forward? You would have received an error message warning you how far away it was from your precise location.
 
"Your current GPS inaccuracy" is a weird construction, maybe consider changing to "Your GPS is accurate to within..."
 
scudsucker said:
Share to whatsapp:

1) share button styling is different to other buttons (Chrome on Android, portrait)

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"Share to" doesn't give me any obvious options, eg Whatsapp, but I assume that is an OS thing that you can't do anything about.

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That's weird, what kind of browser are you using? In Edge or Chrome on Android, it opens the normal sharing panel. For me, WhatsApp is a popular sharing destination so it's in the top row of apps. For you, you should see it if you scroll down in the sharing panel? Of course you could choose to share to Gmail, SMS, Telegram or anything else ... so the point isn't to be prescriptive there. And the share button styling is different deliberately, to catch the eye :P
 
Foxhound5366 said:
What was the GPS accuracy before you clicked fast-forward? You would have received an error message warning you how far away it was from your precise location.
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Within 10m.

Next time I opened the page it was also within 10m and got my correct home address- I wanted to find out where that map showed me.
 
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scudsucker said:
Within 10m.

Next time I opened the page it was also within 10m and got my home address- I wanted to find out where that map showed me.
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Fine-tune on map shows you the exact GPS location, and the Google satellite imagery for those coordinates (the red pin). You can switch to the classic map view too ... maybe it's a Google imagery glitch (if it's correct for the street map but incorrect for the satellite imagery). Sometimes the satellite imagery is just a couple years out of date, so that can also mess with you. Or more likely it was just a GPS glitch, which didn't report the correct accuracy.
 
Reopened the website and went to the map again. Also 10m accuracy, apparently.

Got the wrong area, again, so I zoomed out. Apparently it is the central point in RSA, some shitty part of Kimberly:

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This was the same as what I saw the first time it was incorrect, just very zoomed out this time.
 
... and to answer your question to @gamer16 - I have no idea what this app would be used for, I use Google Maps pins to share location.
 
scudsucker said:
Reopened the app and went to the map again. Also 10m accuracy, apparently.

Got the wrong area, again, so I zoomed out. Apparently it is the central point in RSA, some shitty part of Kimberly:

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This was the same as what I saw the first time it was incorrect, just very zoomed out this time.
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Ok that's the map's default location, the centre of South Africa. So my guess is that there's a glitch with how your GPS is reporting its position to the browser. Did you allow permission to the site to use your location, when you got the prompt? Else your GPS might be reporting something invalid if you aren't outside. I'd be curious to test that some more in different browsers, to see if you get a different result. I've never seen that before.
 
scudsucker said:
... and to answer your question to @gamer16 - I have no idea what this app would be used for, I use Google Maps pins to share location.
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Can you write down Google Maps pins, or share them telephonically, or print them on a business card? Mapcodes are your solution there.
 
I don't need to write pins or share telephonically or print them, I guess I am not your target.

But if I gave my mum (mid 60s, not technical) an address that looks like "K10. N54" she'd have no idea what to do with it either.

With a map pin, she gets a map. With a postal style address, she gets something she can google.
 
scudsucker said:
I don't need to write pins or share telephonically or print them, I guess I am not your target.

But if I gave my mum (mid 60s, not technical) an address that looks like "K10. N54" she'd have no idea what to do with it either.

With a map pin, she gets a map. With a postal style address, she gets something she can google.
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If you really want to give mum a pin, you can with my site too. A richer form of a pin, in fact, if you've tried the sharing URL and seen how that page looks. Even your mum could use it, guaranteed.

And if you think if you're not my target market, you must never have struggled sharing your address over the phone (e.g. when quoting for an insurance policy), or writing down an address on the side of the road where there are no addresses ... so I'm confident you will still get there.
 
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