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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.
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- 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).