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User was a graduate student with some interest in music, not much in parties. User was friend.

User is an undergraduate with interest in music and parties. User not interested in throwing parties. User was friend.

Briefing

Scenario Tasks
Add Music

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Many users identified problems with drag and drop functionality with multiple items(Minor).  Swing's interface for this is somewhat less than intuitive, and more time could have been spent here. Also, users

Users would have liked to preview music directly from this application(Major). This would require enabling playback and/or streaming which was too much for us to implement in the limited time.

Users also felt it was awkward to give a URL directly out to friends, one user recommended using a QR code. 

Users would have liked to see the songs re-order on the voting and playlist screens (Minor, Major respectively) The voting screen is client side scripting and could be re-ordered but would likely get confusing if ordering changed while editing. The playlist screen would simply require an event to be fired when a vote is cast and should be included.

Reflection

Discuss what you learned over the course of the iterative design process. If you did it again, what would you do differently? Focus in this part not on the specific design decisions of your project (which you already discussed in the Design section), but instead on the meta-level decisions about your design process: your risk assessments, your decisions about what features to prototype and which prototype techniques to use, and how you evaluated the results of your observations.

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