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Maria searches for Yale on Campus Connect and gets to Yale’s main page.
She goes to the Photos page, which displays a map of Yale's campus. As she hovers over the campus, a status bar at the top of the map displays the name of the location and how many pictures are available for that location. When she clicks on a building that displays an icon, a callout bubble appears with the name of the building, a description if available, and a link to the photos for that location.
She clicks on the link to the photos in the callout bubble, the map slightly fades and an overlay with the photos appears on top.
She goes to the Reviews page to look for a review about the Hispanic community on campus. The Reviews page has a map, with pushpin icons showing the location of people who wrote the reviews, so that Maria can get the different perspectives based on different dorms and living groups on campus. Above the map there are also hash tags showing the categories of the reviews. She clicks on the "#culture_groups" tag, and the left panel shows the reviews while the map updates dynamically showing the location of the original posters of the reviews in this specific category.
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Aaron logs on to Campus Connect and goes to Yale’s main page. He then goes to the Forum page and posts a reply to Maria’s question.
Learnability:
- This design uses hash tags, which users would be familiar with from existing applications, especially Twitter
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