This is the homepage for deskdash. When Ben Bitdiddle tells Alyssa he's here to pick up a package, Alyssa will click on the "packages" button. This design was revised so that only the important buttons are present. Students in recitation criticized the original design's number of buttons and the fact that they were all equally sized although only a fixed set of buttons will be used 90% of the time. In this design only the critical features appear on the home page. This design is very learnable because it's very explicit. It's obvious that if you want to do anything involving packages, you should click on "packages". In addition, users can type anything into the search bar, so if a user doen't know where to look for "pool sticks", they can type it into the search bar and the database entry for "pool sticks" will pop up. This design is
This page will appear after Alyssa clicks on "packages" on the home screen. On this page Alyssa can either search through all the packages in the system or she can type package information into the search bar. This search bar will only return packages whose database entries match the search criteria (it won't return items or keys like the universal search on the home page).
