Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

GR1: Analysis

GR2: Designs

GR2: Designs

Design 1: The Wizard Approach 

Having decided to use IvyPlusResumes, Isamu points his browser to the website, and decides to sign up. Very simply, the signup interface asks him to provide his email and a password.

Image Removed

After Isamu signs up, he will be directed to enter his basic information such as name, contact info, and address in order to be used in the future resume. Nothing out of the ordinary here, just filling the various fields and checking some options from a drop down menu.

Image Removed

Now Isamu arrives to the very first step of resume building. He is asked to provide information regarding his college and high school education. Using each add field, Isamu adds Brown University and his highschool, and can add more information for each one via the "Add More Info" button (which supposedly will bring a pop-up window with fields to add more data).

Image Removed

Afterwards, Isamu is asked to supply different experiences to his resume. He can use the a
Image Removed
Image Removed
Image Removed
Image Removed
Design 3

Isamu has decided to use IvyPlusResumes to help him get ready for the career fair tomorrow. He opens his computer and goes to the IvyPlusResume's home page. He sees some text about how IvyPlusResumes will get him ready for networking. He sees a place to login, and a place "Add Experience" field to insert an experience or to position to his resume, and then click the "Add More Information" for each experience to augmented with additional information such as the position, the dates of start and end, and the different tasks accomplished in each experience.
sign
Next, Isamu repeats the exact process for his leadership experiences and adds the different leadership positions to his resume.
up
When Isamu arrives to this page, he would have finished entering the information of each category (Education, Experience, Leadership, etc). In this page, therefore, Isamu can change the order of categories and subcategories in the resume, and removes things that he does not want to show. The different panels has an offordance of dragging, and are easily removable giving a great form of flexibility in reordering and selection.
for
Having done all of the previous steps in this wizard-like design, Isamu is ready to see the final outcome of his work and explore his finalized resume. He can, of course, go back and change things easily. Once the resume looks complete, Isamu can enable the option of sharing it with employers and creating an electronic form of it (such as PDF).
an account, so he decides to sign up.

Image Removed

He is taken to a sign in page, where he enters his email address and a password, which he will use to log in from now on
Image Removed

When he hits create, he is taken to his home page. He has the ability to view past resumes by clicking on their names. Although there are currently no resume names as he has not yet made and saved any resumes. There is also a resume viewer on the page, where he will see a resume when it is clicked on. Lastly, there is a "create new resume" button, which he clicks on to create his first resume.

Image Removed

He is now taken to a page which resembles a resume, except where there is usually text, there are textboxes with hints.

Image Removed

He fills in these textboxes and has a form that now looks like this:

Image Removed

After filling in all of the boxes, he clicks the "preview" button at the bottom and gets a professional looking resume as follows.

Image Removed
He notices the 4 buttons at the bottom and tries each of them. The "edit" button takes him back to the previous page which he can edit. The save button opens up a dialog box as follows. Image Removed
He can type in a name and save his resumes. He can then view this resume from his home page under the "View past resumes" tab.

Next he tries the print button, which allows him to print his resume, by opening up his computer's print dialog box. He prints his resume and is ready to go.

Image Removed

Lastly, he clicks the fourth button, the "share" button. The share button allows him to open and share his resume with any email address he wants, by typing the email address he wants to share with in the dialog box and by clicking the share button.

Image Removed
He shares with his mom, because he is pleased with his resume, prints a few more copies, and heads off to sleep, confident now with his new career ready resume.

He then logs out from the top left corner, where he can always go to his home page or log out (if the current resume is saved).