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4) As you feed Marvin, you notice he is staring starting to run a fever. You're worried that he is starting to get sick, so you set up a doctor's appointment for tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 PM.
Task: Add Marvin's appointment to the schedule.
5) As you try to soothe Marvin by picking him up and rocking him back and forth, you notice that his diaper is wet. You go to change Marvin and realize that you are down to your last 5 diapers. After changing him , you get on dBabies and log the diaper change and note that the diapers are low.
Task: Log that Marvin has been changed and let your spouse know that she needs to buy new diapers.
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Users were selected based on whether they had been or were currently any form of a caretaker for an infant. The user could be anyone from a babysitter to a new parent. Additionally, the user was not chosen based on any specific educational/technology experience background. The only assumption made was that the user knew how to use a computer and browse the internet.
User 1
User 1 is a female in her early twenties who frequently babysits for her family and friends' children.
*User successfully and easily logged into dBabies from the login screen.
*She noted and asked if she needed to create a user account, which she did not.
*She found it easily due to its location which maintained external consistency to other websites.
*In the modal for Adding Events, user thought that the add to shopping list toggle should automatically add the item when click not when submitted.
*The user did not use direct manipulation of the schedule to add events.
*For every task that needed an event, she simply added a new quick-add panel.
*Direct manipulation of events on the calendar was useful, but hard for the user to handle in some instances, such as dragging to lengthen the duration.
*The user noted an internal inconsistency in that the digital clock on the page is in a 12-hour format, but the scheduler is in a 24-hour format.
User 2
User 3
Reflection
Over the course of the iterative design process we learned several things of what goes into a solid website design. What we found to be the most important is taking note of feedback and incorporating those comments into our design as much as possible.
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