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‧ Learnability:
1. Different mental model: She attempted to click
to click on his her own profile picture to view how
 how Bob could see could see about him rather than clicking
 clicking on Bob’s page and page and choose
“My LocaShare”. The user expressed
that since it is how others view my information,
it should be shown in my page instead of others
page. 

2. Affordance mismatch: A profile picture has
the affordance to be clickable; however,
our design does not support this function.

3. Misleading arrows/bad affordance: She
was confused by “< My LocaShare” button
and “> Bob’s LocaShare” button. The
direction of the arrows is hard to understand,
the text on the button does not help user to
make the decision as well. Also Also, the texture
of the button does not make the user feel like
it is a clickable button.

4. Bad affordance: An empty map in the
editing page makes user think it is a text
box and want to type something in it.

‧ Visibility:
1. User was unable to know the edits were
only applied to a specific friend.

‧ Learnability:
1. Different mental conceptual model: She attempted to click on his own
profile picture to view how Bob could see about him rather
than clicking on Bob’s page and choose “My LocaShare”.
The user expressed that since it is how others view my
information, it should be shown in my page instead of others
page.
2. Affordance mismatch: A profile picture has the affordance
to be clickable; however, our design does not support this
function.3. Misleading arrows/bad affordance: She was confused by
“< My LocaShare” button and “> Bob’s LocaShare” button.
The direction of the arrows is hard to understand, the text
on the button does not help user to make the decision as well.
Also, the texture of the button does not make the user feel like
it is a clickable button.
4. Bad affordance: An empty map in the editing page makes
user think it is a text box and want to type something in it.

User was unable to find the
search bar for adding a
friend since clicking on
“My Friends” does not
make sense ("Bob is not my
friend at this point")

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‧ Learnability:
1.Affordance: User tried clicking
 on the box to the left of "Star
 Market" as it looks more like
 a button than an icon.