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  1. "Add Content" can be confusing, if it is adding it to the site or the selected album.
    1. Type: Internal Consistency
    2. Severity: Minor
    3. Solution: Replace with Upload
  2. "Submit" is not consistent with other sites.
    1. Type: External Consistency
    2. Severity: Minor
    3. Solution: Replace with Upload
  3. Dragging a single file without selecting (clicking on it) it does not work.
    1. Type: Efficiency
    2. Severity: Major
    3. Solution: Consider adding the functionality for this. This could however breach internal consistency.
  4. "Choose File" and always having "No File Chosen" on the mobile site is confusing.
    1. Type: Internal/External Consistency
    2. Severity: Minor
    3. Solution: Replace with Upload button and remove the "No FIle Chosen" field
  5. No idea there was functionality for editing the description and didn't know how.
    1. Type: Learnability
    2. Severity: Major
    3. Solution: Add right click functionality for editing the description as well as a button at the top of the mosaic for editing. (Similar to remove content button)
  6. Confusing that the description when added was not displayed in the mosaic.
    1. Type: Learnability
    2. Severity: Minor
    3. Solution: Add functionality for the users to be able to show descriptions below pictures in the mosaic. Option in account settings or in the mosaic button bar.
  7. Likes the idea of using a trash can album for removing content
    1. Type: External Consistency
    2. Severity: Minor
    3. Solution: Add a static album that when content is added to it removes it from all other albums.
  8. Upload Modal having album selected to "None" gives users the idea that it might not get added to the site even if they submit content properly.
    1. Type: Internal Consistency
    2. Severity: Major
    3. Solution: Change "None" to "All Content"
  9. Upload Modal gets too big and the submit button is inaccessible if the picture height is too big.
    1. Type: Bug
    2. Severity: Catastrophic 
    3. Solution: Set a max height for how each picture is displayed in the upload modal. Also, make that div scrollable for an overflow and not the entire modal.
  10. When a picture belongs to too many different albums, the modal height gets too big and the submit button is inaccessible. 
    1. Type: Bug
    2. Severity: Catastrophic
    3. Solution: Make that div scrollable for an overflow and not the entire modal.
  11. Submit Query Button's text overflows the size of the button
    1. Type: Bug
    2. Severity: Major
    3. Solution: Increase size of button or change text to upload
  12. When a user wants to delete a picture, the first intuition can be to right click an image. 
    1. Type: External Consistency 
    2. Severity: Major
    3. Solution: Add menu that pops up when a right click of an image happens that provides some common functionality
  13. Children albums should be included in list of albums to upload too.
    1. Type: Internal Consistency
    2. Severity: Major
    3. Solution: Add the children albums to the list of albums to add to when uploading. There is a chance that all pictures being uploaded belong to a specific child. 
  14. User thought that dragging a piece of content in the queue to a different album may remove it from the queue. 
    1. Type: External Consistency
    2. Severity: Minor
    3. Solution: Not a good idea to add this, because this would not remove content from other albums, so implementing this would disrupt our internal consistency. The actual solution would to make the remove from queue button visible at all times (even when content is not selected).
  15. Wasn't immediately clear that double clicking an image would bring up modal.
    1. Type: Learnability
    2. Severity: Minor
    3. Solution: I think the problem is that the mouse over icon changes when a picture is selected guiding the user towards dragging the content. This drives the user to not try double clicking the content. How ever other users didn't have a problem with this so it most likely better to leave the mouse over icons as they are.

Reflection

We should have worked out our paper prototypes more before starting our computer prototype. we had to do a lot of expensive changing because we hadn't really settled on a design.  The paper prototype session was very helpful, and after it we decided to completely change the strucutre of Coshare by using albums instead of tags.  With such a big change, doing another paper prototype iteration ourselves would most likely have been very helpful.
We should have focused on the front-end more during the computer prototype iteration, and not even started on the backend.  We started the backend in parallel with the front-end in GR4, but spending time in the backend resulted in less time for the front-end.  The user heuristic evaluations were all centered around the front-end layout with no expectation of a working backend;  redefining our front-end approach would have led to a more complete prototype that could be intricately critiqued instead of critiques about more fundamental problems that just weren’t implemented.

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