GR5 - User Testing

Design

Implementation

• We implemented the backend with php and a mySQL database. All of the class data is stored in the database. Using mySQL was very useful because it makes searching for different criteria very quick and efficient.
• We chose scripts.mit.edu to take advantage of features such as certificates login. The certificates allow us to save the sidebar data to a particular username, so that no login is needed to use the site.

Evaluation

Reflection

We've learned a lot over the course of the iterative design process. Being forced to sketch out three user interfaces that were significantly different from each other showed us that there really are multiple approaches to arrange the inputs and outputs to our software. The paper prototypes showed us serious usability problems early on in the process, before we became attached to any code that we might have written. Our first paper prototype had a lot of a problems, which were easily fixed in the second and subsequent versions.

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