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Design Decision I: Combined Tabs and Moved to Top
Our paper prototypes had six tabs arranged in a somewhat arbitrary order on the left-hand side, while our final design has four tabs arranged horizontally above the content. This change dramatically increased efficiency and learnability.The original tab names were CurrentAssignedMidnights, CurrentOpenTrades, Contracts, CurrentOpenSwaps, Watchlist, and LogOut. While these names and their associated pages allowed for better specialization, this specialization proved to be unnecessary given the nature of the underlying environment, size of the user population, and scope of the content; indeed, we found it more efficient and intuitive to combine the information from certain tabs.
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