User Analysis
Barring the administrators of our website (who will likely not be using the GUI we design per se, but database software or other necessary admin tools), and based on our interviews of college women who would be interested in our service, we've come up with the following description of our main user class, as well as two personas to provide examples of different patterns of usage.
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- is college-aged, and with education equivalent to at least high school,
- tends to be fashion-aware and self-conscious about styles of dress, and is willing to spend a fair amount of time browsing different styles of clothing,
- has a working knowledge of the internet as well as social networking,
- will most likely use our application in the privacy of their own homes, or with select friends.
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Personas that Exemplify the Above
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Alisha the socialite:
Alisha enjoys parties, and frequently goes to clubs, frat parties, and on-campus parties on the weekends. She believes "a good dress is essential for every party." She has a closet with a handful of party dresses, but on any given Friday night, she struggles to find clothes to wear, because she's already worn most of her dresses at least twice. It wouldn't be so much of a problem, she says, if there weren't pictures of her wearing those dresses on Facebook; she doesn't want her friends to notice that she's repeatedly wearing the same dresses. She says it would be nice to have a supply of new party dresses for each weekend she goes partying.
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Elle would use this application only once in a while, when she decides to go out partying. She would prefer to not have to spend a lot of time browsing dresses.
Task Analysis
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Goal: The user wants to gain access to dresses made available on the Dress Exchange.
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