Scenario: Play Start playing a round of bridge
Steps:
- Four users agree to play bridge. The teams are Harrison and Tuan vs Jack and David.
- All four users sit down at a table, in clockwise order: Harrison, Jack, Tuan, David.
- Harrison is randomly chosen to be the dealer. He sets the deck to be a standard 52-card deck and shuffles it.
- Harrison distributes 13 cards to each player's hand.
- After all cards have been dealt, person to left of dealer (Jack) begins bidding process.
- Tuan calls 1 spade. David calls 2 clubs. Harrison passes. Jack passes. Tuan calls 2 spades. Everyone passes after that. The contract is 2 spades.
- Harrison is the dummy.
- David starts with ace of clubs.
- Harrison lays down his hand face up for all to see. Tuan plays the 3 of clubs from the dummy's hand.
- Jack plays the 7 of clubs.
- Tuan trumps with the 2 of spades.
- Tuan wins round, takes trick, and play continues.
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- pros: affordances for highlighting selection
- cons: user must discover actions by experimentation
Efficiency
- pros: very efficient, types of clicks map to set actions (ie single click selects top, double click all)
- cons: natural constraints on actions (ie pick random card from deck)
Visibility
- pros:** staggered stack,** names are color coded to distinguish user specific selection** user color on cards played will fade over time
- cons: user most must discover some options
Errors
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