Home Screen: |
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When Joe starts LocaShare,he sees |
Easy to learn where to click and how to navigate. |
Easy to navigate. |
Nothing dangerous can happen. |
The most essential capabilities are directly visible. |
Task 1: Add Social Contacts: |
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Joe starts from the home screen and clicks on the |
Some of the location-sharing options are not easy to learn. If you are just given a map, how would the user learn what to do with it? |
Since all the features are clearly labeled, user can set the sharing options very quickly. |
Possible to make mistakes and over-/under-share information. |
Controls are clearly visible. |
Task 2: View real-time location of social contacts: |
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Once Bob adds Joe as a contact, Joe can |
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Have to explicitly search for the contact to be able to view location. Would be better if there was an alphabetical list of contacts that the user could scroll through. |
Cannot edit the contact's information, so nothing irreversible can happen. |
The most important detail (current location) is visible in an understandable manner in a quick glance. |
Task 3: View offers and opt-in to create commercial contacts: |
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Joe starts from the home screen and clicks |
The numbers do not make sense as they are not labeled or defined on the screen. |
Have to go through four screens to establish the commercial contact relationship. |
If you over-share information, the only way to cancel that is by deleting the contact relationship. Not very efficient in that respect. |
Options and controls are clearly visible. |
Task 4: View aggregate information of social contacts: |
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Since Alice wants to view Joe’s aggregate information, |
The user would use the first two screens to view the current location as well, so this task is easy to understand. |
Have to go through three screens to view the interested data. May be helpful to have hovering mechanisms. |
No irreversible change can be done in this viewing task. |
The graphs do not really convey interesting information. May be helpful to show the information on the fourth screen on hover (instead of clicking and going to another screen). |
Task 5: Edit social contacts: |
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Since Joe wants to modify the location permissions |
The task is not very easy to learn in these two slides, since the bulk of the editing happens in the permissions screen. |
May be helpful to have a "Cancel This Option" button beside the specific/aggregate information display. That way, the user does not have to go to the permissions screen to cancel aggregation option (for example). |
No irreversible action possible in these two screens. |
The data that the social contact (user's friend, for example) can see is very visible and easy to understand. |
Task 6: Edit commercial contacts: |
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Since this task started with Joe seeing an offer from Rei, |
The task is not very easy to learn in these two slides, since the bulk of the editing happens in the permissions screen. |
May be helpful to have a "Cancel This Option" button beside the specific/aggregate information display. That way, the user does not have to go to the permissions screen to cancel aggregation option (for example). |
What if the user wants to share a subset of information with Rei? This design describes an all-or-nothing approach. |
The data that the social contact (Rei, for example) can see is very visible and easy to understand. |