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- The younger child could not read very well, and the only visual cue for the ingredients was the name of the ingredient. This would cause the caregivers to also have to be present when the children were giving feedback.
Solution: Include pictures with the icon as well as the name of the icon, and change the “yes/no” to happy face/sad face icons.
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- The older child found the toggle buttons difficult to use -- – they thought they could be dragged.
Solution: Make the toggle buttons look more like toggles and less like draggable buttons. Also, make them larger as the children seemed to have trouble guiding the mouse around. - caregivers Caregivers didn’t always realize that the search bar was not universal.
Solution: Either make the search bar universal or don’t display the search button until they type in a valid ingredient. - Some caregivers did not realize that the kid tiles were buttons at first
Solution: Make the tiles have more affordances to make them look like buttons or include a textual cue.
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- Users could figure out what the checkboxes meant, but a few found them counterintuitive. They felt that checking the box should mean that they need to buy something, instead of meaning they already had the ingredient.
Solution: Create separate sections for the ingredients-- when a user checks on off, it moves it to the “have” list, instead of the “need” list. - caregivers didn’t always understand what the taste score was exactly, and it took some prompting to get them to notice/use it.
Solution: Make the taste score more prominent (change the color/make it the largest element of the results tile). - Some caregivers did not realize that they could search for multiple ingredients
Solution: Make the searched ingredients look more like discrete tiles, or include an example set of tiles in the search bar when they arrive at the site so they have an idea of what to search for.
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