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We have not had the time to make any fancy graphics, or anything involving animation, so some cool ideas we have of improving visibility have not been implemented. For example, we want to have an animation for shuffling to alert users that a stack has just been shuffled, but cannot think of an easy way to make such an animation.

Reflection

Harrison's reflection

Basically, throughout the process of doing this project, I learned affirmed my belief that Victor J Wang likes dick.

Haitao's reflection

I felt that most of the feedback received through doing user tests matched my expectations of what the feedback would be. I guess the biggest disparity was that some people were not as familiar with some shortcuts and affordances which I thought would be effective. For instance, the type of click that people think to do did not match my expectations. It seems that people do not really think to try different types of clicks, preferring to just single left click on everything. However, this instance is meant to be used by people who want to play cards, and so we assume they have already tried other interfaces in the past and are familiar with the standard set of interactions in these online card game rule-based interfaces. The users that we tested on were not necessarily in this user class, so that may have caused some unexpected results.

In terms of milestones, we never really took the time to concentrate of some aspects of usability. We still don't have 100% functionality for our app, so we haven't really had the time to figure out some usability decisions. In particular, the client-server communication took longer than expected, since it was annoying and we didn't really want to do it. Also, some cool usability aspects we envisioned required too much graphical design, and we didn't have the time or expertise to do it. For our front end painting, we just drew lines, boxes, ovals, and preloaded images. The painting also seemed pretty inefficient, but I guess it turned out fast enough in the end. There isn't really any noticeable lagtime in our program.

Victor's reflection

Basically, throughout the process of doing this project, I realized that I like dick.