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Briefing
This application is intended to find and schedule meetups with other dogs in your locality. For this scenario, you may assume:
- You have already created a profile for your dog.
- You are currently logged into the website.
Scenario Tasks
Task 1 : Respond to the invitation from 'Lassy'
Task 2 : Search for dogs in your locality, and schedule a meetup with 'Cupcake'
Task 3 : Review a previous meetup with 'Allen'
First Prototype Iteration
Prototype Photos: First Iteration
Prototype Photos
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1. Home
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Briefing
This application is intended to find and schedule meetups with other dogs in your locality. For this scenario, you may assume:
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Scenario Tasks
Task 1 : Respond to the invitation from 'Lassy'
Task 2 : Search for dogs in your locality, and schedule a meetup with 'Cupcake'
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Observations
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: First Iteration
Home Page
- There was a learnability issue with the "History" section since the intended use was not clear to the users. Users took
time to understand that this section could be used to review previous meetups. One user clicked on the "History"
title expecting to see all past meetups.
- Users suggested that your own dog's Profile Information need not be displayed at the top of the home page.
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Profile
- There was a concern regarding negative reviews being shown on the profile page of a dog. One user was not comfortable
having their name showing up along with a negative comment they posted for a particular.
- Additionally there was suggestion to show a simple rating which would be easier to compare dogs rather than having to
read all the comments in the page to judge if the dog was a suitable match for their own dog.
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Studio Feedback
- Calendar in Schedule Meetup still seems a little unclear (not sure what the "red" color represents).
- Option to display the Dog's Rating in the Invitation Response page.
- The Home Page can be better organized using Accordion style representations.
Second Prototype Iteration
Prototype Photos: Second Iteration
1. Home Page
- Restructured the page to make Upcoming events more prominent
- Profile information was removed
- Renamed "History" to "Previous" for better understanding.
- Affordance to directly rate entries in the Previous meet-ups sections was added, thus improving the
efficiency by avoiding having to switch pages to review.
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2. Search Page
- The placeholder in the search bar was updated to support exact and similar locations along with auto
complete capability for more efficiency.
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3. Schedule Page
- The calendar widget was updated to highlight busy (red) time slots in the schedules of both the participants.
- Calendar widget now shows week view along with time slots for each day. Selecting a time slot auto populates
both the date and time fields.
- Location Field updated to have auto-complete capability and a pop-up for a map view.
- Current date highlighted in the calendar
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4. Profile
- Negative comments are displayed anonymously
- A simple Overall Rating is displayed for better usability.
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Observations: Second Iteration
Home Page
- All three users suggested to remove the calendar and just keeping the list of upcoming meet-ups since it was confusing,
while one suggested having a tab to toggle between list view and calendar
- There was a Learnability learnability issue with the buttons on the list of upcoming events. Users weren't sure whether the button
would lead to the schedule page or the profile page
- One user suggested pushing the upcoming events to the top of the page since it seemed to be the most relevant section.
- One user wanted to view more events displayed in the Previous Section (currently only the last 2 meetups were displayed).
Invitation Response
- Two users selected the "Suggest a new time" option in the Invitation Response task. This lead to the schedule page
(originally designed for Schedule Meetup task) and had to switch back and forth for the
Prototype Iteration
Changes from the initial iteration to the second iteration
1. Home Page
- Remove profile
- Schedule a meetup by clicking the upcoming calendar
- Remove affordance for history
- Switch upcoming meetings to the left
- Change history to past events
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2. Find Page
- Placeholder should support exact and similar locations
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3. Schedule Page
- Show both calendars, or show busy/free information
- Autocomplete Map, Date and Time entries on the schedule page or popups
- Buttons look like pictures
- Separate date from time. It’s ambiguous. Possibly put it on the next line
- Show current date
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4. Profile
- Don’t show commenters name if they are negative
- Show ratio of people who met up and who left comments
- Owners can only see positive/negative reviews
to see the originally scheduled time.
Schedule Page
- The red slots (intended to represent "busy" time slots) was unclear to users. One expected this to be the available time slot.
- The map pop-up capability was not obvious to users, warranting better affordance.
- One user suggested to have each day have the corresponding date displayed rather than a general date range for the week.
Meet-up
- It wasn't clear as to which dogs were listed in this section. All dogs in the network OR all dogs in the locality?
Miscellaneous Suggestions
- Advanced Filtering capabilities in Search page to narrow results based on breed, gender, weight.
- One user suggested the ability to view multiple dog profiles/information while viewing results, as this would be useful in
selecting a dog to schedule a meetup with.
- It was also suggested to be able to see "recent activities" of dogs.
- Support for inter-connectivity with existing Social Networks
Future Changes
We plan to make the below changes in the next round of Software Iterations:
- Update the Home Page to push up the Upcoming meet-ups sections and organize it in a more intuitive manner
- Add better affordances to the calendar widget in the Schedule page.
- Improve the affordance for the map pop-up button.
- Add Rating to the Invitation Response page.
- Organize the Meet-up page to indicate that the listed dogs were ones that were previously met-up with.
- Add capability to cancel meet-ups (Something that no user brought up in both rounds of testing!)
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