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This issue did not affect their ability to figure out what the buttons were for, so it was deemed cosmetic. To alleviate this issue, we could have affordances for those buttons other than a ' + '  and ' - '. For example, the button for adding a group could read ' + Group ' instead of just ' + '. 

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3. Major(visibility): Managing friends and hiding / un-hiding from a friend is delayed with no feedback.

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A possible solution could be to leave things as is, because if the user does not select a mood upon login, they can change their mood afterwards in the status bar. Another option would be to disable the fact that clicking "Enter" will log a user in, and instead require that a mood icon be clicked on. In this case, if the user does hit "Enter" to try and login, the mood icons could be highlighted to show the user they must choose one to login. 

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2. Minor (learnability): When tasked with hiding from a friend, all three users initially clicked in the hiding from area, two of them specifically attempting to click within the placeholder.

When asked why that was their first intuition, two users stated that the placeholder made it look as if they could type in a name. However, when clicking in the "Hiding from" area ] in the bottom bar, all three users went to click on the "Hide from user" eye next to the designated friend, successfully completing the task without too much hassle. state possible solution

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Initially the purpose of the dashed placeholder was to be a target for dragging and dropping a friend's profile picture into a dashed square that read "Drag Photo" in order or hide from or chat with a friend. Now that we are no longer using drag and drop for this purpose, the placeholder does not hold as much significance and can be removed so that users do not confuse it with a text area.

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Two of the users took significantly longer to complete the task "Create a group called Study Buddies" than any other task, and one user opted to be told how to do it. All three users commented that they thought the ' + ' and ' - ' signs meant that the buttons were meant for zoom functionality on the map. On One user also commented that it did not help that the buttons were separated from the group tabs, as opposed to just being right below the last tab. This issue was acknowledged in pilot testing , however and originally deemed a cosmetic graphic design issue. However, the fact that these our test users had significantly more trouble with the task and , plus one user having to ask how to do itcomplete the task, we now consider this issue a major issuemajor learnability issue. The solution to this issue remains the same as described abovepreviously described in our pilot testing results.

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