GR3 - Paper Prototyping
Prototype Photos
*photos will go up sometime ~10pm ish.*
Briefing
Before you is a website called "ManCourses." The website is based around creating a course plan for the upcoming semester. With this website, you can view classes, see your registration, and sync your registration with online calendars. You are a user named "John," who has used the website before. Please complete the tasks given to you on index cards and talk through your thoughts aloud.
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In addition, users had a difficult time with finding 6.005. Although we had set-up the system so there were many ways to accomplish this, we had intended users to use the search bar underneath the main buttons. Various users went back to pages which they remembered having 6.005 as a class listed, or would go through some other convoluted pathway. Most said that the search should be better accentuated, or that there should be a more visible way of not being in one of the three modes provided.
Prototype Iteration
Our two main bits of feedback from users were to make the search function and the calendar function more apparent. We decided to shift the selection bar (with previous courses, current registration, and required classes view options) to the center of the window, and move the search button to the left of this selection bar and the "view schedule" button to the right of the selection bar. This increases the visibility of these two functions. We made this design decision because users testing our paper prototype had the most difficulty searching for classes and viewing the calendar.