Page History

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1. "Add to Wardrobe" Task:
   • Steps
     •  *Yawn*
     • Hits register
     • Writes password and confirms
     • Scribbles email address
     • Hits sign in
     • "Sign in...shouldn't it say Create Account or something?"
     • Reads intro
     • Hits continue
     • Holds up phone and takes picture
     • Hits continue
     • "Oh, I like, choose what type it is?"
     • Selects shirt
     • Adds "Collar" as tag
     • Hits add to wardrobe
     • Takes picture
     • Hits retake
     • Takes picture
     • Hits continue
     • Hits "Nightgown" tag
     • Adds "Smiley" as tag
     • "Oh, you can search for tags?
     • "Oh, this doesn't mean search?"
     • "It should be a plus sign"
     • Hits add to wardrobe
   • Pros
     • Category selection seemed to make sense
   • Cons
     • The search button thing didn't make sense, should be plus sign
     • "Why do you need the tags?"
   • Notes
     • We should have a prompt for the categories: "What type of clothing is it?"
     • "People take shitty pictures--can you make it so I can upload a URL?"
2. "Requesting Advice" Task:
   • Steps
     • "Why does everyone have a really fucking weird image"
     • Writes "Job Interview!"
     • Writes "I have a job interview and I need to dress business casual. I have a pencil skirt, but I don't know what blouse to wear with it"
     • "Who's up voting and down voting?"
     • Scrolls through responses
     • Selects a response
   • Pros
   • Cons
     • Does not like single line text field.
     • The title + details portion was confusing
     • Arrows in the preview scroll between responses? Box with two arrows might be better, "next" "previous"
   • Notes
     • Can make it clearer by adding "You can details on the next page"
3. "Designing Outfit" Task:
   • Steps
     • Hit "Friends"
     • Clicks on request (clicking on face should go to profile)
     • Clicks answer
     • Drags shirt and slaps it onto the canvas
     • Replaces shirt with another shirt
     • Switches to pants
     • Switches to dresses "What she only has one? screw her"
     • switches to "dominatrix boots"
     • switches to jewelry
     • Adds ring to canvas
     • adds plus comment
     • "You should totally wear this you'll get hired"
     • Ordered the wardrobe items by placement
   • Pros
     • Oh, so if I want to trash something, I place it here.
   • Cons
     • "I want to be able to edit the post"
   • Notes
     • Don't use a mannequin

Prototype Iteration

Changes between iterations 1 and 2:

1) *Added more instruction to our mobile application for first time users.  *When a user signs on or registers for an account on the mobile app, the application checks whether the user has an 'empty' closet (has never added clothes to the site before).  If this is the case, the application displays a simple and straightforward instruction page basically telling the user to take photos with their phone to upload to the site.  This choice was made because all three of our first clients were confused when brought directly to the camera after registering, and did not know what to do when they got to that screen. 

2) *Removed the ability for users to add items of clothing to their request advice page.  *All three clients completely ignored this feature, and client 2 even preferred to write a text description of the sort of clothes he would wear, choosing not to point to items from his wardrobe specifically.  Furthermore, Users were consistently confused by the difference between viewing their own wardrobe and viewing someone else's, and when posting questions never wanted to add their own clothing to the post.  Removing this feature both simplified the advice request process, and mitigated confusion for users while focusing our use case scenario on outfit creation.  

3) Updated the title bar order and content. Rather than have the option to 'Browse Requests', which was a feature that confused users in the first iteration, we replaced it with a search bar.  Furthermore, we reordered the top menu bar so that instead of having 'logo, ask for advice, browse, my wardrobe/account' it is now 'logo, ask for advice, my wardrobe, search'.  We wanted to carry over consistency from other websites by having the search field be on the far right.

4) Replaced voting up/down arrows with +/- icons.  We made most of our add and search icons more consistent throughout.  One last change we plan to make in this regard will be, as User 6 noted, to replace the mobile 'search' icon with an 'add' icon.  

5) *Updated how posts are organized on the homepage.  *We added the ability for users to sort by 'recent' and 'popular', rather than just 'recent'.