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Design 1: Weekly calendar
When Miak first enters the site, he is taken to the Schedule tab. Here, he is able to choose the criteria for his HASS classes. He checks off the boxes for HASS-D 2, 4, and 5, chooses the "CI-H" button, and chooses the "don't care" button under final exams. He also checks every department in the scroll list. He then changes the calendar to "Free Mode" and selects all the times he is free by creating and dragging boxes. When he is done, he pushes the SUBMIT button.
The application then takes Miak to the browse page, which displays all the results of his search and allows him to manipulation data. He clicks on the accordion arrows to expand the page and view detailed description of each class. Eventually, he decides to pick Bioethics. He clicks on the star next to that class and the application records his selection.
Miak then clicks on the friends tab. He adds his friends "Michaela" and "Mary" by typing their Athena usernames into the search box. After each addition, the friend is added to the lists friends that displayed on the screen. Miak can then easily look at all the friends he's added and which classes they are taking. When he hovers over a class, a box pops up that displays information about the class and options to flag the class. This box is identical in format to the information box for each class in the Browse tab (so it is not displayed below)
after "Save" is clicked...
if you click the "friends" tab, you can add or view classes that your friends are taking:
Learnability
- The interface for creating schedule blocks is very similar to calendar programs, such as Google Calendar, so users who have used similar programs can quickly be able to learn how to use this interface.
- Additionally, the interface makes use of checkboxes and radio buttons, which users are already familiar with. This will help them quickly learn the interface.
- However, the use of "modes" in the scheduler and search criteria (selecting 'busy' or 'free' spots in the schedule, selecting 'old' or 'new' HASS system) may be confusing to users
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