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- Having new calendars appear ason-theythe-needfly/as-them needed on the "new class page" confuses people (they have to pause and understand what it is);
- Assignments on the phone are too small – even with the large prototype, users are mis-touching;
- While there are multiple ways of adding new assignments (clicking on a date square or on the class list on the right) users don't know this – they just have to guess;
- Consistency among the interfaces is good – the second time users see the calendar view, they understand how to use it;
- We don't have any method of notifying users when they make an error (such as missing a section on the new class form);
- People seem to read the error messages (this might change with a computer prototype);
- Lack of enter can be confusing on auto-updating fields – this needs to be a quick change;
- We definitely need to be crossing out assignments (not removing them);
- On your calendar, make a distinction between public and private events (user suggested color, icons would also work);
- We need to be consistent with our wording (Find vs. Search vs. Create);
- While color is useful, some users had trouble finding which "PS1" assignment they were supposed to remove.
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- Even though the mobile metaphor is slightly different now, users don't have any trouble using it;
- Adding plus buttons on every element that can add new assignments might clutter it a bit, but it really helps the users learn the interface;
- Making users explicitly add further assignments on the creation page is fine and less confusing;
- All calendars need to have dates on them;
- Some confusion between "Name" referring to assignments instead of class. On the creation page, name should be closer to the text box it represents;
- One of the slowest tasks has consistently been the selection of 6.005 from the search list. We should make sure that the font for title of the class is larger than the rest of the search result.;
- Having both a "search" and "add a class" buttons seems to be fine. Maybe search could also search through all of your assignments.;
- Finding the correct assignment to complete is much faster with the addition of class name.;
- Some would really like to be able to add it to an external calendar. (useful feature, but might hurt the push capabilities that make this useful);
- Plus button next to class works really well, communicates it's action.;
- One user tried to add an assignment without adding any classes first. They didn't have a good grasp of our model, and we might want to highlight or bring notice to the "Add class" button if this happens.
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Based on our observations from Iteration 1, we identified several opportunities for improvement. Smaller changes were performed between users, while more significant modifications were deferred to the next iteration.
On the main overview page, we noticed that users were having a bit of trouble figuring out how to add new assignments. They generally got it, but it was through a guess and very non-obvious. We decided to include plus buttons on every element that can be selected to add an assignment (next to the class list and on every date square). After this change, users were less confused and completed task 3 more quickly.
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