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Scenario
Phil and Vivian are a married couple that lives in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood with their 3 year old Boston Terrier, Will. Despite giving Will all the attention in the world, Phil and Vivian believe it is important for Will to spend time socializing with other dogs as well. During one of their daily walks, Phil and Vivian run into another dog owner, and the couple stops to let Will play. Unfortunately, the larger dog gets a little too aggressive and bites Will. Determined to find a smaller, less aggressive playmate for Will, Phil and Vivian Google search for a solution and come across DogPack.
The two decide to try out the new site in an attempt to find friends for Will. After quickly filling in their biographical information, they begin inputting Will’s information. The website requires them to fill in Will’s name, gender, and breed, in addition to uploading a picture of their Boston Terrier. With their profile created, the owners are now able to view different dogs and dog groups around the Phil and Vivian search for dogs in their area. Luckily for them, there is a Back Bay Small Dog Group that meets regularly on the esplanade on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Not only do these times fit in both Phil and Vivian’s schedule, but the group has established a limit on the size of dogs that can join. Phil and Vivian quickly sign up to join the group. Once approved, they download the groups meetup schedule to their Google calendar. Now they can’t wait to bring Will to meet his new friends!they come across another Boston Terrier named Carlton around the corner. They click to view Carlton's profile, and see many comments on how sociable Carlton is. Pleased with what they have seen, the click to schedule a meeting with Carlton and his owners. They fill in a date, a meeting place, and send the invitation. Shortly after, they are sent a notification from Carlton's owners, Geoffrey and Hilary, saying they have accepted.
Will and Carlton have blast during their first meeting, and Phil and Vivian get along great with Geoffrey and Hilary. Shortly after their meeting, Dogpack prompts the two for input on their meetup. Phil and Vivian enthusiastically comment on how well the meetup went and add Carlton to their doggy favorites. The next day, they simply go into their favorites and schedule a weekly meetup with Carlton.
In summary, Phil and Vivian were able to accomplish the following tasks using DogPackThe user wants to accomplish the following tasks:
- Find dogs in a specified location or nearby (using their current location)
- Schedule a meetup with a dog owner
- Review an experience with a dog they have met up with
- Schedule a meetup with a dog they have met up with in the past.
Individual Designs
Individual Designs - Shashank
Storyboards
Design 1 (Social Network)
This is the main page of DogPack. Phil and Vivian view this page and are attracted by the pictures of various dogs filled with possibilities of finding a playmate for Will. Feeling excited the two go ahead and create a profile for Will.
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Clicking on the Calendar in the Group's landing page, they can learn more about the specific event (such as date, location and comments/updates)
Analysis
Learnability :
This interface is learnable due it's simple interface that's similar to most forum style websites, maintaining external consistency. The interface focuses on larger group activities and makes it easy to find groups based on certain criteria.
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The scope for mistakes is fairly limited for users since they don't have permissions to make changes to Groups, since only the admin/group owner will have permissions to edit them.Individual comments posted can be edited.
This interface might be limited by it's lack of visuals which might make it un-intuitive to users not familiar with forums and blogs (though a small user population).