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Storyboard designs and Analysis
Storyboard 1:
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Suppose Amberlee wants to find a book. She opens up her application, and sees that she has a few recommendations, but she has read them all. She instead decides she wants to read a vampire romance with her friend Hamberleigh. She goes to "recommend a book" and looks up the genre for vampire romance, and sends the recommendation to her friend. When she checks her Reading List, she can see the books she is reading so that she doesn't forget to whom she has recommended the book. Over the next days, the girls get together and discuss the book.
This design is extremely learnable. It is based on a design similar to Netflix, such that most users will be very comfortable using it, and can quickly and easily get the hang of it. It quite efficient, but its efficiency is a bit affected by its safety. It highly interconnected, such that every title has its options displayed right there to minimize mistakes; however, this costs screen space, lowering efficiency. storyboard focuses on ease of use. It is extremely safe by showing everything all at once
Storyboard 2:
This was a super efficient design. In it, Amberlee presses find, picks the fantasy genre, and scrolls to find a book. The idea was that the only typing would be entering the name of a book (possibly writing a summary). That way, users who are in a hurry at a book store would only have to press buttons. In class, it was suggested that a dropdown menu or auto complete would have actually been more efficient.
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