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Users found this page fairly straightforward to use because it is essentially equivalent to sending an email/message. One of the main design decisions we had to make for this page was how the user was going to select which children the story was about. We allow for two different ways:
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Report Lunch
For this page we made the assumption that most times, all the children ate the same meal except for a few kids who might have some special dietary constraints (Eg. Allergy to cheese). Therefore, we wanted to make this page efficient, in the sense that it should be easy for the daycare worker to say that most children had the same meal, but we also wanted to accommodate for the cases when a few children had a different meal for some special reason.
We came up with this design after the paper prototypes. The changes that we made after the heuristic evaluations to this design were minor, but nonetheless important. One of the more relevant changes was adding animations to indicate that the options in the dropdown menus had changed in some way.
The drop-down menus glow every time a meal is added to the list of available meals, a meal is deleted from the list of available meals, the fill all button is pressed.
Report Daily Log
This page is fairly similar to the Report Lunch page. We decided to use sliders because we wanted the user to have a good amount of options (the sliders have 5 states), but we also wanted it to be efficient to report information about a good number of children at the same time. Sliders also have the advantage of being very glanceable. One thing that users found helpful were the labels that appear on top of the slider thumb.
Archives
The main purpose of this page was to allow the daycare worker to have a sense of what he has submitted about each children. Through the archives page the daycare worker can check if he has not submitted events abour a particular child in a long time. We use the same icons we use in the home page, which allows the daycare to quickly identify the type of events that he is looking at. Because there will be a fair number of events reported each day, we allow filtering by type and by children.
