Client Design 1DescriptionIn our first design, we focused on simplicity. We wanted to make the process of searching for businesses to donate to an event as easy as possible for the user. We provided the bare essentials of the interface by using a wizard metaphor. The wizard would guide the users through the necessary information entering phase, and then provide users with a list of recommended businesses to contact. The first "step" of the wizard would take in the minimum needed information that a business might want in order to decide whether or not to sponsor. The next "step" was optional for the user and asked for more specific information about the planned event. 
We designed the wizard with consistency to the usual wizard model, so the interface would be immediately familiar. This would greatly improve learnability and safety. After the wizard, the user would receive a page of results for recommended businesses. The results would be sortable by various additional criteria. Clicking on a business result would bring up an information "profile" page on the business. The user could then contact the business with the contact information available on this page. AnalysisAs mentioned earlier this design is fairly learnable and safe because it provides the user with just one path that can go either direction in case of mistakes. It builds on the wizard idea which almost everyone is familiar with so it is very learnable. Because this design is learnable and has very few steps it is an efficient design in most aspects. The latter part of the application lacks in efficiency though. Since we only require the minimum amount of information from the user, the business list will not be filtered for efficiency. The user will likely have to look through a larger list which takes more time. |