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Learnability:
As soon as they land on the page, users can learn about the web application's mission. They can also learn what the application allows them to do. Log in and Sign up hyperlinks are positioned in a standard top right corner which provides consistency with the rest of the web applications. On the main page, people who are new to MyWeb will see the hyperlink “add new folder” by which they immediately learn how to add new folders. Clicking a button “add new bookmark” also teaches them something definite about the web application. Similarly, if they click on the “My Friends” tab, they can learn about how to add new friends by clicking the appropriate affordance.
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On the other hand, users won't be aware that a lot of features, like sharing, are placed in the setting bar that's accessed via the pencil button. Once
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learned, however, it's easy, but it's not completely straight forward. We think that for this design, the video at the beginning introducing the user to all the features
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is a good idea
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to increase learnability. We decided to make this trade off in order to avoid crowding the webpage.
Visibility:
In contrast with traditional bookmarks, this interface gains a lot on visibility. Users can see the state of their bookmarks before they actually navigate to the corresponding website.
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Some of our features are implemented using drag and drop
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, which is not visible. Similarly, the way to delete a folder (right click) is not visible.
We achieve better bookmark visibility than regular bookmarks. We also make
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it easier to differentiate and recognize different bookmarks. However, the user is not able to really observe the details of the page, so they will have to navigate to it if they wanted to get an updated view.
Efficiency:
Area of the bookmark is now larger, so it becomes much easier (by Fitts’ law) to navigate to the bookmark area.
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