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The iterative design process allowed our team to really focus on one stage of development at a time when building our interface. We appreciated that the prototypes we built increased in fidelity as time went on and allowed us to focus on achieving a usable interface as the ultimate goal of the entire project. One of the most important things we gained out of building a paper prototype was the idea to pare down our interface complexity and try to implement something simpler both to improve usability and augment ease of implementation. The computer prototype we built focused on the front end, using canned responses for server queries and trying to make the interface look good. Because our interface was so close to done after the first computer prototype, we could focus on adding the "meat" behind the server calls to populate fields with real data and only make minor adjustments to the UI's look.
One feature that made use of the iterations was the "tag" feature: every search yielded a comment explaining what was being searched for. At first, we envisioned this as a list of tags, but when we implemented it we decided a sentence format with the parameters visible in a different color would be more visually appealing.
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