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Group Briefing
Hi, I'm _________ and these are my partners ______ _ and _ ________. Thanks for helping us out! We're testing out a system to help people manage a job search. The system, named JobTracker, will be a website that people can use to manage documents and keep track of tasks related to their job search.
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- Add a new Company, "Google", make it part of a Group, "Tech", and color the Group yellow.
- Add a new Document, "resume" (which is a file on your computer) and link it with Google
- Add a new Contact to Google, "Jane Doe jdoe@google.com"
- Add a Task called "Cover Letter" for Google due 4/15/11
- View all upcoming tasks
Observations
Version 1
User 1
Wanted to add a lot of information about a company all at once, at the beginning.
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The user thought that having navigation at both the top and the bottom of the screen was "weird" and made it hard for him to find things.
User 2
Looked for the group he was supposed to create and found it didn't exist.
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Thought the "view all upcoming tasks" task was kind of confusing.
User 3
Took a while to find out how to add a new contact.
Looked at company page when trying to add a task.
Version 2
User 1
Thought the groups in the dropdown menu should be colored appropriately.
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Was confused about adding a contact - didn't see the connection between contacts and company. Took a while to complete this task because it wasn't clear to him that you could click on a company on the main page (be sure to add lots of clicking affordances to the company buttons!).
User 2
Completed every task promptly and with little hesitation.
User 3
Wasn't sure what the point of the group colors was.
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