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Google page when Refocus.io is open.
Going to one of the articles before reading.
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- When doing searches on Google, users wanted to be able to skim each article, instead of reading them entirely.
- Users liked that they could see the previous section read. Graying out the previous section was a good idea.
- Some people would have liked to know where the specific "chunk" of text was, relative to the rest of the article.
- Some people expressed frustration that they weren't able to switch to view other pages from the Progress List. This occurred because we did not make a mock-up of every page that Google showed.
- When articles chunked immediately, it was not obvious what the page looked like before being chunked.
- Many people were curious to know what commonly visited pages would look like, such as Wikipedia.
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Second Design Iteration
We incorporated the observations from user testing our first iteration (listed in the Observations section above)
Problem from First Iteration | How it is addressed in Second Iteration |
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Articles in progress list not clickable | Made articles in progress list clickable so that users can move between articles |
Select text icon/functionality non-intuitive | Changed Select Text icon to an Icon that simply had the words "Select Text" on it |
Next arrow distracting |
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Fixes from First Iteration
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