Briefing:
When working in teams, it is often difficult to make sure that everyone is aware of deadlines. Typically it is the job of a group leader to harass team members, reminding them about impending deadlines. Most likely these reminders annoyingly occur to too frequently for some team members , and not frequently enough for others.
TeamTimer lets you create timers that countdown to certain times. You You can then share them with other people.
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Pretend your name is Joe. Joe Joe User. You You are working on an assignment for UI called GR3, which is due Sunday night at 11:59pm. This This is a group assignment; however, your two groupmates, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan, are notorious for turning assignments in late. You You want to use TeamTimer to send them timers to remind them of the upcoming deadline. Barack Barack Obama is already one of your TeamTimer contacts; however, you must first add Ronald Reagan as a contact.
Tasks:
- Add Ronald Reagan as a a Contact contact (His his email is rreagan @mit.edu)
- Create a Timer for UI GR3 due this coming Sunday at 11:59pm
- Share with Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan
- The deadline was extended. Edit Edit the event to this coming Monday at 11:59pm.
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- We added an arrow to displayed timers to indicate an “editable” affordance.
- We pre-filled the AM/PM drop-down menu with a value.
- Since clicking the calendar icon and clicking the date textbox have the same effect, we removed the calendar icon. The date can still be entered manually in the textbox while the calendar is open.
- Modified tasks to specify that Ronald Reagan’s email is rreagan@mit.edu
- Pre-fill time/date textboxes with a default time (ie. current time/date)
- Changed “Pending” text to “Unconfirmed Timers From Your Contacts”
- Changed “Edit” to “Edit/Share”
- On the “List of Timers” screen, replaced “Now” with today’s date and time to make it more clear that it’s a timeline
- Removed “Add” button, so users add a contact by autocomplete
- Add text “Contact Added Successfully” upon adding a contact to provide feedback.
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Initial design before user testing
Final user design, after three tests
Default main page
Add contact dialog
Confirmation of action
Create/Edit timer window
Interface to view all contacts and choose who to share with
Default page after three iterations, with a timer