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He immediately sees what his post looks like. He sees that there is an "Edit Info" button available to him but he his happy with his post. He leaves the website and later on calls his aunt, Valentina, and lets her know that he posted the photo. Valentina types "photo talk" into google, her only confident course of action on the web. Luckily, it is the first hit. She loads the page and sees the home page as depicted in the first sketch. She navigates to the
"Photographer" search bar and types in her nephew's name, "Paul Jones".
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"What a beautiful picture", she says to herself. She decides to tell this to Paul the next time they talk, rather than comment on the page. Meanwhile,
Colby, a seasoned PhotoTalk user, signs on and is feeling nostalgic about his home state. He searches for "Joshua Tree" in the location search bar on the home page in order to satisfy this nostalgic feeling.
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The thumbnail of Paul's photograph is enticing, so he clicks it.
He Colby loves the photo, but can't help but notice that the photo is of a California juniper not a Joshua Tree, as the caption says. Since he's already logged in, he clicks "Post a comment..." and writes: "Awesome photo, man, sure makes me miss home. That's a California juniper, though, not a Joshua tree!" A few days later, Paul decides to log in to PhotoTalk again.
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He's happy someone already saw his photo, but feels a bit silly for having misidentified the tree in his caption. After clicking "Edit Info"
he is brought to a page similar to the "Post Photo" page where he changes the caption of the photo and clicks "Fix Post!"
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After viewing that his caption successfully updated, he makes a post in response to Colby's post.
Analysis
Dimension | Pros | Cons |
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Learnability | > There is one search box for each type of search that the website offers and each of these is clear upon loading the home page. | > The user may not be able to think of "types" of photography or "events" that photographs might depict. |
Visibility | > Photographs are presented on the home page right away. | > The pictures on the main page might distract users from the fact that, in addition to searching, they can simply click "See all.." to see all of the different photographers, locations, events or types. |
Efficiency | > Visitors to the site, whether they have an account or not, can begin viewing photos directly from the home page or through immediate search. | > Some users may feel slowed down by not having a search bar that is available on every page. |
Error Prevention | > Photo information can be corrected using the Edit Info page | > Only the photo poster can correct his or her photo info, so mislabeled photos will remain mislabeled if they are negligent. |
Design 3
The main page looks like this.
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He selects the photo pile from the day he uploaded. The Edit Photo Info page reappears, and Paul edits the photos' descriptions.
Analysis
Dimension | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|
Learnability | > There is only one search box for all types of search terms, similar to popular search engines | > The user may not know what keyword to use to get good results. |
Visibility | > Uploading photos and entering comments gives feedback right away. | > The view page does not show the pictures in the same series (uploaded in the same date by the same person) as the current picture. |
Efficiency | > There is only one search box for all types of search terms. The user does not need to categorize his search term first. | > The user needs to go to the advanced search page if the user only wants to search by a particular type of search term. |
Error Prevention | > Photo information can be corrected using the Edit Photo Info page | > Some people may supply incorrect photo information, which leads to contaminated search results. Since only the uploader can change the photo information, that error may persist for a long time. |