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- Pro: The date of a new entry defaults to the current date.
- Pro: Templates allow users to save themselves time from entering commonly-eaten, routine meals or food items. Since Templates can be edited after they auto-fill the form, a Template can save the user time even when it doesn’t exactly match what the user ate.
- Pro: Once a user saves a Meal Log entry, the Quick Update box will clear again (albeit with a message confirming the previous entry was saved), ready to be used to enter another food entry.
- Con: The user cannot enter multiple meals all at once, before clicking SAVE.
- Con: Because food items in the Food List are not tagged with the different food groups, the user will have to label an item’s food group each time it is used.** This may be an acceptable inefficiency, since it gives users a chance to consciously review the types of food they have eaten each time they record a meal.** There was an efficiency trade off made; it is easier to update the Food List because there is no need to tag items in it.
Error Prevention
- Con: The “Save meal as template” checkbox is by default un-checked, since the majority of any user’s meals will not be saved as a template (so, good for efficiency). However, there’s a risk that users will forget to check that box when they do want to.
- Pro: once a user saves an entire new entry, a message appears that allows users to directly view the previous entry, in order to correct any possible mistakes. This stays up until it is replaced by a newer entry’s message.** Con: user may not recognize that there’s an error with an entry, if he does not go to view the actual entry.
- Pro: To prevent confusion from two entries of “milk”, this interface forces users to write distinguishable entries if they have two kinds of the same item. Users will not be allowed to have two identical food items on their Food List.
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- Pro: The interface is easy to learn. It is a form.
- Con: An exception to the internal consistency of the labels in the dropdown boxes is “Food Groups.” New users may not know what it means.
- Pro: However, this is intended to be one of the default graphs displayed, so new users can see what it is on their first visit.
- Con: New users may be confused by the date selection, since there are two ways of accomplishing the same thing.
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