Usability Test

For my usability test i used one of my roomates. I sat her down in front of cnn.com because i know she doesn't often use it. Considering she doesn't know much about what's going on around the world lately. I first asked her to find out about U.S. news, she didn't struggle much at all on this one, because it was just a tab towards the top of the page. Then i asked her to find a blog on a recent article. Again it wasn't too difficult for her to find, however it took a little longer than the first task because she had to scroll up and down the page a few times. The next task was to find a live feed of the news from cnn. This was her hardest task to complete. It took probably about two minutes because the live feed was a small hyperlink just above the footer on the homepage. Overall, cnn.com is a pretty well laid out website. I'm sure that anyone who uses it would not have a problem finding what they are looking for, even if it's not extremely specific.