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His business is called Emilio Shoot. His phone is 533 444 5343. He typically charges between 8000-12,000$ for whole-day wedding shoots. He also does portraiture and charges 465$ per hour.

Design 1

  • Learnability
    • Consistent with popular web2.0 sites like flickr, but might be difficult for a beginner to learn
  • Visibility
    • Editable fields appear only when you click on an item. This is less visible than having a textbox always visible.
  • Efficiency
    • To element, you click on it (e.g. clicking on photo brings up the upload photo overlay)
    • You can switch tasks (search for photographer) by using the search bar at the top
  • Error Prevention/Correction
    • If you make a mistake, just click on the element and change it.

Design 2

  • Learnability
    • Standard form layout for each step of signup
    • Wizard pattern to guide between one profile editing page to another
  • Visibility
    • Visible confirmation via message bar upon creation of profile
  • Efficiency
    • Less efficient because process is split into multiple steps
    • Sample photos are added one at a time.
    • Price structure is entered as text so photographers can enter their customized price message.
  • Error Prevention/Correction
    • Distinct buttons: "sign up as photographer" and "sign up as user" to prevent users accidentally signing up as photographers

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  • Learnability
    • Assumes greater computer skills because of fewer affordances (e.g. clicking on your name turns it into a textbox where you can change your name. Compare with having a textbox on the page at all times).
  • Visibility
    • Profile editing page looks very similar to the profile page that user's see. This way, photographer knows exactly how the change will be reflected.
    • Profile items become editable widgets (textboxes and textareas) when clicked. This presents a visibility problem.
  • Efficiency
    • Single page presentation
    • Instant updating (no 'save page'/'submit' button instead you have 'save' button per field/section)
  • Error Prevention/Correction
    • Requires details for sign-up (business address, phone) so that users will not accidentally  sign up as photographers
    • Accidental deletions can be reverted by pressing cancel