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Home Screen:

Storyboard

Learnability

Efficiency

Safety

Visibility

   

  
   
 

When Joe starts LocaShare,he sees
the home screen shown in the figure.

* Upon clicking the link “view” near
(i), he sees the names of social contacts
that are near his current location. By
clicking on the button “View Contact”,
he can view further details.

* Upon clicking the link “view” near (ii), he
sees the names of people who added
him as a contact. The relationship between
Joe and that person (e.g., Susan) is not
established till Joe also adds Susan as his
social contact. By pressing the button “Set
Permissions”, Joe can add Susan to his
list. If he does not want to share his location
information with Susan, he can choose to
“Deny Request” and Susan would not be
able to track his location (since he will not
appear as her social contact). By selecting
either “Set Permissions” or “Deny Request”,
he can remove the person’s name from this
screen.

* Upon clicking the link “view” near (iii), he sees
a list containing thenames of stores that are
offering discounts or sales in exchange for his
location information.

In all the three cases, he can choose to return back to
the home screen.

Pros:
- 1. Easy to learn where
to click and how to navigate .
- It is easy to learn how to
navigate because the
labels are self-descriptive.
It provides good affordances to
help the user understand what she
 would see when she clicks on a link.
Cons:
Pros:
The icons in the
design provide
easy understanding
of the message
that follows.
Cons: by
providing texts on the labels.
However, it pays the price
of simplicity. 


Cons:
1. Back button at the bottom is inconsistent 
with other mobile apps. The way
of receiving notification is also
inconsistent  with other
 social apps such as Facebook. 
2. The user interface uses
jargons (social/commercial
contacts and GPS coordinates) 
which makes hard for
users to understand.

Pros:


Cons:
The user may
inadvertently
delete the offer.
Having a confirmation
dialog will be
helpful - If the list of contacts is long,
users need to scroll down on the long list. 

The error here might be
 viewing the wrong deal
or contact. Users can undo
 this action by pressing the back button.

Pros:
The most essential
capabilities are
directly visible. 
Graphical representation
of what the task entails.

Cons:
However, only - Only numbers
are directly
visible, if you know
that
someone has
added you (if they
notify you), you
still have to click the
"view" link and then
acknowledge the
relationship.

- The "view" hyperlink
does not provide
enough information scent.  

Task 1: Add Social Contacts:

Storyboard

Learnability

Efficiency

Safety

Visibility





Joe starts from the home screen and clicks on the
tab “Social Contacts”. He is then taken to the screen
shown here that can be considered the “Home
Screen” to handle his social contacts. Here, he can
(i) search for an existing social contact or (ii) add a
new one.

Since Bob is not on his contact list, he
selects “Add New Contact”. He is then taken to the
screen that shows the various settings he can use
to control the amount and type of his location
information that Bob can view.

He can create settings according to
what he wishes to share (in detail or
in aggregate) with Bob. He
then clicks the button called “Save Contact”. He can
also cancel the form and start it again, if he wants to.

The breadcrumb trail helps the user navigate
back to home screen of the app or home screen
of the social contacts.

Pros:

As in the other screens, the information scent is
strong because the user is able
to identify and keep track of which
part of the application she is in.

Providing the map option makes it easy
to learn and adapt since it is externally
consistent with apps like Google Maps and
gives the ability to directly manipulate.

Cons:

The screen does not indicate which
options are compulsory and which
may be skipped.

Pros:

Since all the features are
clearly labeled, user can
set the
sharing options very quickly.

Cons:
The list of options may
seem tedious for many
users.

If the user wants to share
the same type of location
with multiple users, she
will have to enter the
same details all over
again. Aggregation of
location types may be
helpful.

Pros:



Cons:
- Possible to make
mistakes and over-/under
share
information.
Confirmation dialogs
may be helpful.

Pros:

Controls are clearly visible.

Cons:


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Task 5: Edit social contacts:

 Storyboard

Learnability

Efficiency

Safety

Visibility


Since Joe wants to modify the location permissions
for Bob, he first searches for Bob on the “Home
Screen” for social contacts. After he comes to
Bob’s profile, he clicks on Bob’s icon/photo and
comes to this screen. Here he view the amount
and type of information that Bob can view about
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Joe can see that Bob can see his current location
as the lat/long in Cambridge, MA (his current
location). He also sees the pie chart/wheel that
describes the categorization of places that Bob
was able to view about him. He can now choose
to modify the permissions by clicking on the button
called “Modify Permissions” or can choose to
return by clicking “Cancel”. Once he clicks “Modify
Permissions”, he taken to the permissions sketch
described in task 1.

The breadcrumb trail helps the user
navigate back to home screen of the app
or home screen of the social contacts.

Pros:

Cons:

The task is not very easy to
learn in these two
slides, since the bulk of the editing
happens in the permissions screen.

He "clicks on Bob's icon/photo and
comes to this screen". How will users
figure that out on their own?

Pros:

Cons:

May be helpful to have a
"Cancel
This Option" button beside the
specific/aggregate information
display. That way, the user
does not have to go to the permissions
screen to cancel
aggregation option (for example).


Pros:

No irreversible
action
possible in these
two screens.

Cons:

Pros:

Cons:

The data that the
social contact
(user's
friend, for example)
can see is very visible
and easy to understand.

The control for editing
task is not visible at all.


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