GR1
User Analysis
Our Two User Classes:
- The traveler - An active person who spends much time exploring new places. Travelers often like to take photos of these places as a way to record their experiences.
- The interested non-traveler - Possibly a friend or a concerned parent of a traveler, who would check up on the traveler's activities if given the option.
Personas
Interviewee 1, 28, lives in San Francisco. She has traveled to many Asian counties, backpacked through Europe, and is planning on a trip to Australia this spring. She enjoys exploring new places and meeting new people. Most of the time, she uses the camera on her iPhone. Claiming to have bad memory, she tries to write down her experiences whenever she can. Unfortunately, she often forgets to do so or procrastinates. She also mentions that she meets great people on her trips, but always misplaces their contact information. Interviewee 1 likes to share photos that she finds exceptionally interesting, usually by using Facebook.
Conclusion
From this interview, we learned that a solution should:
- motivate or remind travelers to record their experiences (Reason: travelers tend to forget or procrastinate)
- store contact information of new people that the travelers meet (Reason: contact information can be easily misplaced)
- give travelers the option to share specific photos with a specific group of people (Reason: travelers want to choose which photos to share and with whom to share them)