Development on the new editor for WordPress is steaming ahead towards a big reveal at WordCamp Europe in June this year. Last week, I tested the Gutenberg prototype using the community-created Gutenberg testing script (a big shout out to @martinlugton, @j-falk, @lucijanblagonic, and @karmatosed for the hard work on this!). Here are the insights from the analysis of the 3.5 hours of user test footage. Being a total UX nerd, I also took the opportunity to test the test.
Summary of findings
As the user test script contained 18 tasks, the detailed observations and video footage make this for a very long post. If you are after a quick summary, the main takeaways are that participants love the overall minimalist and modern direction of Gutenberg (kudos to all the WordPressers!) and they find the general concept of blocks and contextual menus really intuitive to use, confirming earlier user test results.
The main insights from this user test session pertain to perfecting the finer, detailed-level interactions:
Keyboard shortcuts, tooltips and search are a must
Inserting a new block is really, really hard
Inserting a new block is also a little confusing as new blocks lack definition and are
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14974/user-testing-the-gutenberg-editor
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/user-testing-the-gutenberg-editor/
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