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Individual Design Sketches
Viksit Arora's design 1
This design tries to give the user control over what news-stories/feed they get on home page. Elder people are less interested in what is going on in their remote connections/interests, but more in the closer/stronger ones. The menu on the right filters feed on options of "Family , Friends, Interests .. etc"
On clicking on a particular story, it expands on the same page to take more space, to let the user interact, and has an affordance for "close operation". This allows to various items on this particular page, pretty much like facebook, but with some additional possibilites.
So for the scenario - John visits home page, which has feed from all connections, he clicks on "Interests" which explands to show sub-menu. He clicks "Medica", sees the feed, responds to the ones he likes. He then clicks "Video streams" in the sub menu option of "Loss in life"; begins to watch some streaming feed from Paul, likes the streaming, and adds him.
Viksit Arora's design 2
One big difference in this design as opposed to the last one is the idea of stacks. Like mentioned before, our research suggested that old people have more interest to stay in touch with a close group of people, as opposed to get to know whats up with remote connections. They also tend to remember and place 2nd degree connections as that. So Mary (lets say Bob's wife) is remembered as "Mary - Bob's wife". And so with Bob's children. Hence Bob is aprimary contact, and his family members 2nd degree. This gives a notion of some sort of grouping, that we are calling "stacks". So Bob has a stack. So while viewing his "connections" page - Bob can see various stacks with the primary contact on top of the stack. Clicking on it would display all individual contacts.
This design also has a standard navigation on the left heavily inspired from ubuntu, that will use a heavy use of metaphors for icons.
The flow remains consistent with the last one, just the view changes.
Viksit Arora's
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design 3The third design, explores the possibility of making all tasks accomplish-able by search. So anything that someone wants to do - it is done by search.. After logging in, John types "stories" in the search bar.. with the help of autocomplete, choses "medical stories". The view is updated to show that. He answers the questions he wants to, just like in the first design. Then he types in "dealing with loss video" and he sees the options of "Paul - on Life and loss", clicks on it. The view is updatedd to show the video streaming. He likes him, and adds him as a friend.
Brian Chang's design 1
Brian Chang's design 2
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