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Aaron is junior at Yale, he’s an Economics major and he just registered for an account on Campus Connect because he wants to find potential new students that might join his fraternity. He gets to the Yale page and he writes a review about the Greek system at Yale. He posts pictures of him and his brothers from Greek Week and then he posts a video from a recent event on campus. Then he goes to the forum where he sees Maria’s question and replies telling her about HSPE and other clubs she might be interested in.
Designs
Design #1
Kim's Design
is
the most
amazing one
Design #2
Gaia
Draw's better
Than
Me
es
its true
Design #3
dasdfaf 
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
Maria searches for Yale on Campus Connect and gets to Yale’s main page.
She goes to the Photos page and browses through the posted pictures.
She goes to the Reviews page to look for a review about the Hispanic community on campus.
She goes to the Forum page to post a question about the Hispanic clubs, associations and events on campus.
Learnability:
- The tab design is easy to navigate and understand.
Visibility:
- The name of the university can get lost on the page. Needs to be more prominent.
- There is a lot of information on the front page of the University, which might lead some information to get lost in the page.
- Photos have captions so that a user knows what they are about
- Reviews have pictures of the user who wrote them
Efficiency:
- The page loads more as you scroll (infinite scrolling)
- The tabs allow the user to get to the different sub-pages very quickly.
Error Prevention:
- There is little order to the Forum section. There needs to be a section that just deals with common questions.
Design #2
Maria searches for Yale on Campus Connect and gets to Yale’s main page.
She goes to the Photos page and browses through the posted pictures.
She goes to the Reviews page to look for a review about the Hispanic community on campus.
She goes to the Forum page to post a question about the Hispanic clubs, associations and events on campus.
Aaron logs on to Campus Connect and goes to Yale’s main page.
He goes to the Forum page and posts a reply to Maria’s question.
Learnability:
- Each page has the same consistent sidebar so it is easier for a new user to learn how to navigate the website
Visibility:
- The links to each section about the current university are always visible
- The name, image, location and ratings of the university you are currently viewing is always visible on the left.
- The rating section can get lost on the screen.
- The text boxes to post a question or a reply in the forum are directly in the page, so that the user can see the questions and replies while posting his/her own
Efficiency:
- You can get to any of the sub-pages for the current university in one click, by using the sidebar
- You don’t have to do to a different page to post a review, question or reply.
Error Prevention:
- The front page doesn’t have any questions from the forum. Isn’t redundant enough.
Design #3
Maria searches for Yale on Campus Connect and gets to Yale’s main page.
She goes to the Photos page and browses through the posted pictures.
She goes to the Reviews page to look for a review about the Hispanic community on campus.
She goes to the Forum page to post a question about the Hispanic clubs, associations and events on campus.
Aaron logs on to Campus Connect and goes to Yale’s main page.
He goes to the Forum page and posts a reply to Maria’s question.
Learnability:
- This design is very simple and clean cut.
- The front page shows a snippet of each one of the subsections
Visibility:
- The front is too long. A user might not scroll all the way down.
- The front page gives the spotlight to the reviews which is the the reason most students will come to our website.
- There are links at the bottom to the different pages of reviews/questions so that the user knows exactly what page he or she is on.
Efficiency:
- The user must go to the separate page to post a comment.
- The topics in the forum are divided by category so that a user can find what he or she is looking for quickly.
- No way to tag a review for easy searching later.
Error Prevention:
- This is the only design that had order to the Forum section thus preventing some errors.