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Population Characteristics for target users.
Age: 16+. Basically, everyone can use it, but we think it is reasonable to assume that the users will be of some age.
Gender: Both.
Culture: As diverse as possible, in order to share a lot of different experiences. Primarily educated and English speaking.
Computer Skills: Basic Internet Browsing Capacity
Motivation: Experiencing, sharing, learning, and tracking.
Marital Status: All applicable
User Interviews
Person 1:
Person 2: (A travel agent)
This person is from an interesting group of users, which is directly relevant to our project.
Travel agents - who are trying to organize travel packets, according to their customers needs - love this inside information and the user feedback.
In this way, even users who are not familiar with Internet or users that are not used to this kind of websites will probably still use it indirectly through their travel agents
and they may also get a motivation to start using it on their own.
Potential for making it subscription-based, since travel agents would certainly pay for it. (However, we believe that we would lose a lot of other users. It is an option we can consider though)
Person 3:
Task analysis
All of the tasks are learnt by trying and by watching others maybe.
We leave the possibility of instructions or a help button open, for later stages in the design.
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