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Design 2: Illustrative
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: Images are easy to understand for people not fluent in English.
- Learnability: There isn’t a lot of text; good information scent.
- Learnability: Progress bar clearly communicates how many steps are left.
- Learnability, Efficiency, Safety: Auto-complete helps user understand what they should input.
- Efficiency: Schedule view prioritizes most vital info first, while presenting less vital info as links
Cons
- Efficiency: Having to click next every time instead of having everything you need to fill in all on one page.
- Efficiency, Safety: A pop-up window requires that you first exit out of the window before going anywhere else. If you want to return to that window, you’ll have to go through all the steps again.
- Efficiency: Having to click through multiple levels of button links could be annoying if you have many groups
- 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
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