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Ben, a recruiter for a Software company, is looking for Software Developers at MIT. Thus, he goes to the MITJobs homepage (figure 1). | | Since it is the first time that he is accessing MITJobs website, he does not have a an MIT certificate. He signs up using the form shown on the right. | |
After singing up Ben enters a new webpage (figure 2a). He wants to create a new post and thus he presses the button “Create Post”, which is at the top-right of the page. | | ||
Then a an overlaid webpage (3b) appears in front of the old webpage. He Ben fills in all the necessary information about the job opportunity and saves it. While creating the post there is no "Message" button at the top. This is only for people browsing the posts to contact recruiters or for recruiters to message people following the post. | | ||
Alyssa, an undergraduate student in Computer Science, is looking for a Job in Software Development. She enters in the MITJobs homepage and since she has an MIT Certificate, she can directly signs in . Then by a single clcik, after which she is forwarded to webpage 2a. | | ||
At this stage, she browses the job posts, where there is a small description of every job. When she finds some nice job description, she clicks on it. After she clicks, an overlaid page with the description of the job post appears (just like the one in 3b, but without the save button). | | ||
Alyssa decides to contact Ben to inquire about the posting, and get some more details about the project. At the post (3b) she presses the button “Message”, then she is redirected to page 4c, with the information of the recipient filled. She then writes her message, and sends a new message. | | ||
She then receive receives a reply from Ben and the message is overlaid her inbox and . The list of messages in the inbox is similar to the list of posts in page 2.b. On clicking a message, it is displayed as an overlay objec, which looks like page 4b. They Using messages, Ben and Alyssa set up a meeting. | | ||
In the meantime, Dragos, an undergraduate at MIT , who has already interviewed with another company, but would like wants to only keep up with the updates from Ben’s job post. He signs into the website with his MIT certificate, browses the job opportunities and then chooses to follow Ben’s job post. | | ||
After some days, Dragos enters again in the website and then chooses the tab “My Posts” (3a). He sees under “Posts I am following” that there is an update in Ben’s post. He clicks it and then an overlaid page with the post. The post contains the updated details enhanced. |
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Design Analysis
Learnability:
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This design is very efficient, since the user is on average three clicks away from whatever information he/she needs. For example; to sign in or sign up, to choose the right tab, and to choose the relevant information within the tab. The only problem is that the user needs to sign in every time that enters in the website, which makes the website less efficient. We could work around this by making it such that a user can choose to “stay logged on”. Also, since filtering posts is allowed while browsing using the tab on the left, MIT users may be directly logged into the "Browse" page and can filter things directly from there. However, this might affect learnability.
Visibility:
The main executable tasks are at the top of the page, right after the “MIT Jobs” logo. If the user needs to do some task related to messaging, posting or browsing, there is a clear tab indicating them. Also, for an employer, the button to create a post is always visible at the top-right of the page, making it very simple to the employer to create a post.
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She clicks on the “Browse Posts” button, which shows him all posts in the form of icons displaying the job title, job type and job group (Figure 2_6). She can filter posts according to these options.
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On this page, hovering over a post icon, displays a brief description of the post. Clicking anywhere on the post or its description opens the post description page (Figure 2_7). 
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