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Our final main page

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Our original main page

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Decisions we made

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after paper/computer prototyping and heuristic evaluation:

1) We combined the four search boxes on the sidebar in our original design into one search box and a drop down list to select the type of search in the final design. In the prototyping, users find that the four boxes and the four buttons accompanying it are confusing; it is not clear whether the users can search using more than one type of search at a time. With the drop-down, it is clear that the user is only searching using one search type at a time, and that only one query is possible.

Implementation

Describe the internals of your implementation, but keep the discussion on a high level. Discuss important design decisions you made in the implementation. Also discuss how implementation problems may have affected the usability of your interface.

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