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Image 1 was redrawn so that only the important buttons are present. Students in recitation criticized the original design's number of buttons and the fact that they were all equally sized although only a fixed set of buttons will be used 90% of the time. In this design only the critical features appear on the home page. This design is very learnable because it's very explicit. It's obvious that if you want to do anything involving packages, you should click on "packages". The button icons also make the button functionalities explicit. In addition, users can type anything into the search bar, so if a user doen't know where to look for "pool sticks", they can type it into the search bar and the database entry for "pool sticks" will pop up.
Image 2 2/3 were redrawn to include a "location" column instead of a "bin" column because not every dorm uses bins to sort packages--some do not sort them at all.
Students in class suggested adding ", etc" to the list of search suggestions to be displayed in the search bar before a user types anything. This will make it clearer that the text in the search bar is a suggestion--not a requirement.
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