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The pop-up asks for Jane’s home address. (Note: There will also be an interface where Jane can block out times when she is unavailable, so the matches will be filtered out by compatibility.) 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.”
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- Efficiency: The design allows the user to get started very quickly by immediately typing in the event they are looking for upon arriving to at 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 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: All of the required steps, from searching for an event to finding other interested parents, occurs within a single page.
- Efficiency: The tab structure allows the user to quickly switch between different tasks.
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- Learnability: Images are easy to understand for people who are not fluent in English.
- Learnability: There isn’t a lot an overwhelming amount of text; by information foraging theory, the interface provides good information scent.
- Learnability: Progress The progress bar clearly communicates how many steps are left.
- Learnability, Efficiency, Safety: Auto-complete helps user understand what they should input.
- Efficiency: Schedule The schedule view prioritizes the most vital info firstinformation first (the user's next pick-up time), while presenting less vital info information as links.
Cons
- Efficiency: Having to click next every time instead of having everything you need to fill in The user must click "Next" every time; the form is not located all on one page.
- Efficiency: The user needs to click through multiple levels of button links to access groups, which could be slow and frustrating if the user has many carpools.
- Efficiency, Safety: A pop Pop-up window requires that you windows require that the user first exit out of the window before going anywhere else. If you want the user seeks to return to that window, you’ll they'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.
Design 3: Mobile
Pros
- Learnability: Simple interface The interface is simple and intuitive to use.
- Efficiency: Sign-in only needs to happen Since mobile phones are generally personal devices, the user stays logged in, so they only need to sign in once.
- Efficiency: Since this does not offer the full capability of the web stylewebsite, the few options are very easy to access and fast to utilize.
- Safety: Easy It is easy to navigate between tabs/activities.
- Safety: Few options to make errors with There are few options, so making an error is unlikely.
Cons
- Efficiency: The mobile interface is unable to complete all the tasks that they users could perform from the website.
- Safety: Because some buttons are so easily accessible, they may be pressed accidentally. (For example, it might be troublesome if you the user accidentally press presses “I can’t make it.")
- Safety: Since the form does not use multiple pages, the users user will lose all of their entered information if they accidentally press the back button.