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The pop-up asks for Jane’s home address. It also provides a progress bar in the top lefthand corner, so Jane can be visually aware of how many steps she has left. Jane enters the location of her home and clicks “Next.”

The pop-up then asks for the extracurricular activity for which Jane seeks to carpool. A back button is also available in case Jane wants to change something she entered previously. Jane finds Bob’s underwater basket weaving class with the search function and clicks “Next.”

A list of potential carpooling groupmates is displayed in order of distance from her house. The first 2 are automatically selected. Jane has no problems with this and clicks “Next.”

A message is sent out to Alyssa and Vladimir, notifying them of Jane’s interest in carpooling with them. Jane is finished and clicks “OK.”

After a day, Jane comes back to the website to check whether or not Alyssa and Vladimir have responded. She clicks the second icon from the user homepage and arrives at the “Messages” view. Jane is interested in her pending requests, so she clicks the first icon.

This leads her to a display that shows all of Jane’s pending carpools. Jane selects the “Basket Weaving” icon.

Here, Jane is informed by the smilies next to their names that Alyssa and Vladimir have accepted her carpooling request. Because both have accepted, if Jane clicks “Submit,” the carpool group will be formed. Jane clicks “Submit” and the “X” icon to exit the view. Image RemovedImage Added

From the user homepage, Jane clicks the third icon to see her schedule. Here, her next pickup date is displayed prominently. An icon linking to a map of the route is also shown. However, she can not make it, so she clicks “Swap Date.” This sends an automatic email to all group members, requesting an exchange of dates. Jane clicks the “X” icon to exit the view.
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From the user homepage, Jane clicks the second icon to see messages from the basket weaving carpool. (The navigation to get there is exactly the same as that of the pending requests view.) The most prominent display here is the chat-style messaging system. Vladimir has replied, and they agree to a swap. They can keep track by clicking the “Full Schedule” icon on the left-hand side and editing in the changes. Image Added
Design 3:  Mobile

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