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- Mentioned that it could be useful to have SAT scores, admission rates and other official statistics on the main page.
- Got confused when she saw a map appear in the photos Photos tab. She said it would be helpful to see pictures when you open the map or if the tab's title were "Map".
- Was not very clear about the difference between the Reviews page and the Forum page. She said that the forum was probably open to everyone, while the reviews could only be written by the students currently at the college.
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- On the Main page, we made it clearer that the map was showing where Yale was in Connecticut and not a campus map.
- We realized that the word cloud is not effective when you have a specific topic in mind, but its it's very effective when you're just browsing. Therefore, we added a toggle button to the Forum and Reviews page to change between two different visualizations: the word cloud and an alphabetical list of topics.
- We also added the text "Ask Anything!" to the Forum tab to make it more clear what this section was for.
- In the photo panel, we added captions to the photos.
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- We learned that the Main page was is very important to users. Many of them kept going back to the Main page to see what information was displayed on in it.
- Map The map in the Photo Photos tab is confusing because the photos aren't being immediately displayed and it's not clear how the map is related to the photos. Therefore for For the next iteration we should find a way of incorporating more photos onto the map so that it 's is more intuitive for new users.
- We repeatedly saw that users were confused about the differences between the Reviews and the Forum pages. There also seemed to be a strong connotation with the term "review" indicating that it was referred to administrative/official reviews. Our intention was for the reviews to be written by students currently at the college and that these reviews would not be official at allunofficial. As a result, in the next iteration we will most likely change the name of the reviews tab to something like "Student Reviews". We might also decide to change the forum tab to something involving the word "questions".