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Another issue was the ability to hide or remove users. The "X" in the upper right of each user card was difficult to see, so we decided that we need to make it more visible and make it's effects more clear. The solution is to remove the "X" and add a "Hide Student" button next to the view profile information. We also are going to remove the bottom left "View Hidden Users" button in favor of moving it up to the upper right next to "Create New Search." This change will move it closer to the "Undo" message that gets shown.
Iteration 2
*User A:
* Still had some learnability issues and confusion as to how to enter a requirement with an or (Java or C++ and Matlab). He was till unsure even after looking at the example we included. He was successfully able to hide 3 students and then restore one of them. When trying to email students, he didn't see the "email students" button so he tried clicking on their profile card but couldn't find the email button.
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Prototype iteration
We made several changes when creating our second prototype in response to the user feedback we got for the first prototype. On the results section which displays the mini student cards, users didn’t understand that the x in the top right corner was so you could get rid of the student card or they didn’t even see it, so we decided to make a hide button that was very visible on the bottom left. Users had the option of starting a search over, and we had a popup that asked them if they were sure they wanted to start over with the default value set to yes. We decided to change this for safety reasons to having the default value set to no so that users wouldn’t accidentally press enter and clear the results of their search. Previously we had a “start new search” button that always appeared, but we decided to make that button invisible until the user actually did at least one search since we didn’t want our users to accidentally click that button while entering in their search parameters and have to start over.
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