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User 3: The user recommended an auto-complete functionality for searches, as well as more advanced search capabilities: one that would allow the user to pinpoint a party by time, date, and location. In addition, user 3 recommended to consider enabling the user to search for other people’s music, pull the file, and add a song to the user’s personal play list.
Prototype iteration
- Added a search bar to the results page to allow users to search again without hitting the back button on their browser
- Created a form to allow users to create parties on the front page instead of some secret admin interface
- Instead of using a 5 star rating system, we use rate a song based on the number of likes and dislikes to rate the songs, we have decided to adhere to a 5 star rating system instead. This will enable the user to provide more information on his or her interest in a particular song, and provides a more accurate picture of how popular a song by rating songs through a highest average rating.. This will give us a better ratio to determine which songs should be play or not played. If we were to use the 5 star rating system, we would probably see rating normally distributed and centered around 3.
- In a future iteration, we will try Another change that is to move from a playlist/song centric user interface to a party centric user interface. While the interface will still adheres adhere to the core concept of allowing users to rate, upload, and download songs, the user interface will also aggregate information on the user's previous party-going history, and pinpoint a specific party through date, time, date , and location.
- Enable auto-complete to prevent and decrease the probability of user errors.
- Added a search bar to the search results page.