After doing some user testing and making them sign a disclosure agreement some design flaws became apparent in the website.
One of the main ones was how distracting the animated lock on the home page became after you clicked on it to get access to the home page.
“I found at first it was mesmerising but after the third time of trying to see the home page and having to wait for the lock it got really irritating.”
With this in mind I sort out a way to solve the issue. I remembered from doco-loco that the rating system was deigned to only be clicked once using local storage. Using this idea I used local storage to store when someone had clicked on the lock so that id would only display once.
This also solved the issue of the lock being a distraction to the site as that was also a topic that was brought up by an interviewee. She said that she felt the lock, while interesting and sent a clear message about security, it made her wait longer for the site to load the home page which she felt was an unnecessary feature. With the local storage in place it solved this problem so every time she went to use this website after her first visit the lock animation was no longer visible.
A good thing that all testers agreed on was that they liked the fact that the information stayed on the main screen as they could see everything that they needed to without having to scroll.
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