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Once the user is logged into the site, they are offered several different pieces of information, each of which take up their own corner of the screen real estate. In the top left, there is the total amount that the user owes, and the number of overdue bills appears in a large, red font. This will quickly attract the user's attention to any overdue bills, which we expect them to correct promptly. On the right side of the screen, the user sees their bills for the current month. This calendar serves as an overview. There is a larger version of this calendar available on a different tab, if a user wants to explore further than the bills for the current month. Next, there are two very prominent buttons towards the bottom of the screen, allowing the user to add a bill or to pay a bill. We expect these to be very common tasks on our site, and as such made these actions stand out on the page. The buttons are large, which comes from the application of Fitt's Law.
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One of the main tasks that a user will perform on the site is adding new bills. Because of this, we try to make this action straightforward, helping the user along as much as possible. For instance, when a user inputs the total amount for a bill, that amount is automatically subdivided up amongst all of the selected users. Similarly, a calendar pops up when the user wants to select the due date for the bill. This makes the selection process a simple point-and-click, instead of using drop-down menus or another selection scheme.
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Solution: Show all bills connected to the household under household so that user has access to bills even if they do not apply to him at the current moment.
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Reflection
Our group learned many things about development, design, and prototyping throughout this course. We learned about the iterative design process of making an application. One of the main things that we had to deal with was that we are not the users. We realized that you don't know how users will interact with your product until you actually allow them to access it. This comes in the form of prototyping, which provides challenges we were not used to as a developer. It is difficult to design a backend for an ever changing front end implementation.
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