User Testing

Design:

Design decisions for

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viewing friends:

1. Make the home screen more intriguing and informative by implementing an interactive map, and marking the locations of friends nearby.

2. The map and button failed to fit in the screen in GR4, so we decided to use a Google Maps API (addresspicker) as a plugin to resolve this problem.

3. Make the profile picture in the homepage button-like to give users the affordance of clicking.

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5. In friend's page, in response to user1's (in GR3-phase 2) inquiry for knowing all the locashares I am sharing with a certain friend, we use a drop-down menu to list all the locashares.

6. In GR3, users expressed that "View me as sb." this sentence is confusing, so we modified the sentence and make it as a prominent button next to friend's profile picture.

Design decisions for creating a new LocaShare:

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