• Created by Unknown User (rlacey@mit.edu), last modified by Unknown User (amruthv@mit.edu) on Mar 07, 2013 23:10

Jeffrey Chan, Ryan Lacey, Amruth Venkatraman

Scenario

Max Sun is a professor in academia at the University of California, Berkeley. All three of his kids have left home, finished college, and are now living on their own throughout the US. Max has finally decided that he doesn’t need to hold on to his daughter Naomi’s stuff anymore. He is looking to give away her incredible assortment of Barbies and Japanese comics. He calls his friends Elaine, Xueying, and Mike Jones asking if they would like any of Naomi’s old toys. They all expressed that they would have been interested in picking up the toys if their kids were of the same age, but unfortunately all of their kids are past the age where they would have enjoyed them.

Max googles for toy listing sites and stumbles on yourturn.com. He decides to list the barbies and comics on there, hoping some others would find the toys useful.

Kyle was just laid off from his job as a construction worker in Berkeley due to a permanent back injury. He has two kids and is unable to provide them with toys. He checks Goodwill and the Salvation Army to see if there are any suitable toys for his children,but doesn't find anything that would interest his kids. He searches online for cheap toy listings and comes across yourturn.com. He searches for comics and discovers Max’s donation listing. He claims the toys on the website and organizes a meetup time to collect them.

Group Designs

Design One

Easy to find, hard to give.

Design Two

Easy to give, hard to find.

Design Three

Mixed bag.

Individual Designs

Jeffrey

Design 1
Design 2
Design 3(Tiny Screen)

Ryan

Design 1
Design 2
Design 3

Amruth

Design 1
Design 2
Design 3
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  1. Katrina Marie Panovich

    Hi guys,

    Thanks for all of your hard work on GR2! Below are my notes from grading feedback. Grades should be up soon.

    Preliminary designs: You're missing usability analyses for your third design! Otherwise looks good. As we discussed in studio, you should probably not spend time thinking about the exchange stuff for now. It's not as interesting as motivating easy giving and easy finding of toys. Also don't forget that you can make a design that's good for both finding AND sharing toys :)
    Studio presentation: Please make sure you're on time next time, or I'll have to subtract points.

    A few things to note going forward, for all of the groups:
    - Try to make sure your wiki is organized. Don't be afraid to create a table of contents, for instance.
    - You may want to refine your scenario for GR3. Note that you're going to be using your scenario to brief your users, so you may want to make it a bit more task-oriented.
    - Login and basic account creation are not a good use of your time for prototyping, unless you're planning on doing something really interesting with it. You can assume that basic signup flows work fine. 

    Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions.