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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.
Second Design Iteration
Improvements based on User Testing
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Open Browser, Open Refocus.io extension |
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Add a Link of Interest to the Progress List using | |
Click on the Select Text button to go into Read Mode | |
In Read Mode we can expand or Collapse the | |
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Expanded Progress Pane |
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