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Design 2 takes an illustrative approach, catering towards those who are illiterate or have poor English skills.
Design 3: Mobile
Design 3 tackles non-computer interfaces, specifically mobile phones.
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- Pros
- Efficiency: The design allows the user to get started very quickly by immediately typing in the event they are looking for upon arriving to site.
- Efficiency: All of the steps needed to go from searching for an event to seeing who else wants to carpool for that event occur within one page.
- Efficiency: Minimal investment is required since signing in or signing up is only requested after the user has found the event that for which they want to carpool.
- Efficiency: The tab structure allows the user to quickly switch between different tasks.
- Cons
- Learnability: Some users may not understand what the various UI input fields are asking for since the design lacks dense descriptions or pictures.
- Learnability: With so many options in one place to promote efficiency, beginners may not find the UI intuitive.
- Safety: Since the form does not use multiple pages, the users will lose all of their entered information if they accidentally press the back button.
Design 3: Mobile
- Pros
- Learnability: Simple interface
- Efficiency: Sign in only has to happen once
- Efficiency: Since this does not offer the full capability of the web style, the few options are very quick to get to and fast to utilize
- Safety: Easy to navigate between tabs/activities
- Safety: Few options to make errors with
- Cons
- Efficiency: Unable to complete all tasks from web style
- Safety: Because some buttons are so easily accessible, they may be pressed accidentally. (It might be troublesome if you accidentally press “I can’t make it,” for example.)
- Safety: Since the form does not use multiple pages, the users will lose all of their entered information if they accidentally press the back button.