GR3 - Paper Prototyping

Prototype photos

Prototype 1:

Prototype 2:

Briefing

Campus Connect is a website that helps high school students get more detailed and accurate information about the colleges they are considering through reviews, ratings, photos and videos posted by students currently at the university. High school students can also post questions to ask for specific information they can't find anywhere on the website.

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• Initially clicked on "Recent Photos" when looking for a photo of the student center.
• Confused about the difference between the Forum and the Reviews pages.
• When looking for a topic in the word cloud, she went through all the words starting from the top left until she found the right one. This is inefficient when looking for a specific topic.

Prototype 2

User 1

• Was wondering whether she could click on the ratings to find out more information about the topic (parties).
• Was an "explorer" type of user. She clicked around the website and kept coming back to the main page to see what information was available.
• Said that the toggle button to change between the alphabetical list and the word cloud was not very clear.

User 2

• Mentioned that it could be useful to have SAT scores, admission rates and other official statistics on the main page.
• Got confused when she saw a map appear in the Photos tab. She said it would be helpful to see pictures when you open the map or if the tab's title were "Map".
• Was not very clear about the difference between the Reviews page and the Forum page. She said that the forum was probably open to everyone, while the reviews could only be written by the students currently at the college.

User 3

• Wasn't sure how he could add a comment to the reviews.
• Was interested in knowing what the ratings were based on.
• Mentioned that it would be cool if the ratings on the main page would link to the corresponding section in the reviews tab.

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