GR3 - Paper Prototyping

Prototype Photos

User Briefing

Analyst's Notebook is a data analytics application for which we are creating a new User Interface.  You are an analyst trying to find optimal locations to build WiFi towers in Africa.  You have 4 data sets, already loaded into the application for you.  Useful background information:

Satellites (going up in 2013-2014) will provide WiFi coverage over Africa, but their frequency range can't transmit signals through rain.  WiFi towers do work in rain.  Many African tribes are nomadic, moving around in search of water and food.  Your job is to find locations for new towers to maximize the number of people with WiFi access, taking into account the data.

Scenario Tasks

Task 1:

Wiki Markup\[Import available data sets and\] view the relationships between three of these sets on the map.

Have one tab with overlayed data and one with intersected data so you can analyze the difference.

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Find the tower with the highest cost and move it north.

Observations

Adding Towers

When our "Add Towers" button was located directly underneath the list of current data sets it was not intuitive what that button was for.  Some comments we got about that included:

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 - screen size will matter (especially for whether split screen is feasible)

Prototype Iteration

Initially, we were debating between two versions of the panel called either "Layers" or "Data Sets." While user feedback was split, we decided to go with "Data Sets" for future iterations.

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