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Discover.Me is a mobile phone application which we are developing. Its aim is to allow a user, such as yourself, to be able to find and locate an approved list of friends so as to be able to be up-to-date with their real-time location. The application will subsequently allow you to, based on the proximity of you and your friends, quickly and easily create an event; specify its time and select a location from the suggested list created by app based on your preference, and send invitations out to friends whom you'd like to meet with. The application will thus allow all participants to have a better knowledge about the geographical location of the event and facilities available over there, as well as easily view who the invitees and what their responses are (i.e. are they coming or not). Ultimately, we aim to make spontaneous, closely-located based events amongst friends fast to create, easy to disseminate and clear to invitees what the responses are.
Finding a friend in your friend's list |
Adding a friend to your friend list |
Creating and Inviting Friends to an Event |
Creating and Inviting Friends to a Closed Event (With Application Suggesting Locations) |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change In Time |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location |
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Imagine that you are an individual named Alice, currently using Discover.Me. |
Imagine that you are an individual named Alice, currently using Discover.Me. |
Imagine that you are an individual named Alice, currently using Discover.Me. |
Imagine that you are an individual named Alice, currently using Discover.Me. |
Imagine that you are Zoey, currently using Discover.Me. |
Imagine that you are Zoey, currently using Discover.Me. |
Finding a Friend in your Friend List |
Adding an Individual into your Friend List |
Creating and Inviting Friends to an Event |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change In Time |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location |
General Comments |
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users did not exhibit difficulty in locating the Friend List icon, but they were distracted by other buttons on action bar and the search bar. |
users suggested that there should be lesser steps in adding a friend, to facilitate users to add more friends in lesser time and make the UI more efficient.disabled buttons on addign friend sheet provide distractions to user, even though they help in maintaining the consistency. users noticed that show on map has ambigous meaning. does it show persons office location or current location? and pages always return to home page which confuses the user and distorts their mental model of the system. users also think that the search should have more cue for whats it about. forexample is it for location or person or added friend. users suggested that there should be lesser steps in adding a friend, to facilitate users to add more friends in lesser time and make the UI more efficient. |
the icon pictures are not consistent with uses mental model for that picture, which means the icons are not externally conssitent with other application and interfaces. and therefore these icons have affordances which do not match their functionality and are prone to description error. user also felt that there was too much detail to be enterened in order to create an event which demages the porpose of impromptu events. time zone, end time are unessasry for the porpose of te app. and location is covered with confirmation box. and updating event functionality for slight changes should be available. |
users found it surprising that sending RSVP take user back to another confirmation box. and the event details page does not provide affordance for editing and users tried to cancel the event and recreate a new copy with the modification. |
Users were not presented this task. |
The system is pretty intutive but at times there are few extra clicks, and there exists ambiguity about functionality of some features such as back/close search bars etc. |
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Finding a friend in your Friend List |
Adding an individual into your Friend List |
Creating and Inviting Friends to an Event |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Time |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location |
User's General Comments |
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Finding a Friend in your Friend List |
Adding an Individual into your Friend List |
Creating and Inviting Friends to an Event |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change In Time |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location |
General Comments |
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User did not exhibit difficulty in locating the Friend list Icon. Picked it out correctly on the first try. |
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Finding a friend in your Friend List |
Adding an individual into your Friend List |
Creating and Inviting Friends to an Event |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Time |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location |
General Comments |
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Finding a Friend in your Friend List |
Adding an Individual into your Friend List |
Creating and Inviting Friends to a Closed Event (With Application Suggesting Locations) |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location |
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Users no longer had problems identifying the top row of buttons as buttons they should be tapping on to launch sub-menus, indicating that they were providing better affordances as buttons. Users also were drawn to the search bar in order to identify if a friend was currently present in the Friend List. The idea that the search bar should be used to look for someone, and not simply check the Friend List indicated that the users had a different conceptual model as to how the system should be used. Some wanted the menu icons to perhaps have text, or better information scent, to make them confident that they were going into the right menu. The icons used were generally recognized as "Friends", "Calendar" and "Conversation", indicating that there was some external consistency in their usage. As a result, most users learnt by doing/exploring. |
Most users had no difficulty identifying the "plus"-icon being the button that had to be used in order to begin adding a new friend. Their familiarity with the flow and usage of the menu indicated good internal and external consistency. |
While some users made use of the suggested locations for the meetings, some preferred to specify their own locations, and were unsure of whether the system would support their actions, indicating a lack of affordance, and confusing the user. |
Users found the instructions on the menu useful in accomplishing their tasks, though they did spend time reading it. We suspect that expert users will not experience the same lack of efficiency. Some were unsure about the behavior that would occur in order to propose a change to the event location, but were assured when they found the word "Propose" used. The "Revert Change" button being greyed out confused some users, and one user commented that changing it to "Undo" might be clearer, indicating a slight lack in external consistency, because we were not speaking the user's language. |
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Finding a friend in your Friend List |
Adding an individual into your Friend List |
Creating and Inviting Friends to a Closed Event (With Application Suggesting Locations) |
Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location |
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Design |
First Iteration |
Second Iteration |
Third Iteration |
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Action Bar Icons/buttons on home page |
Action bar contains icons for Friends, Events and Notifications. these Icons are of the same color as action bar but in darker shade and are outlined. |
Action Icons are replaced by prominent and easy to locate buttons. |
Action bar design retained from the previous iteration. |
Default text Search bars to provide cue on what to search. |
Search bar is location on the top of following pages:
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Search bars now contains a Cue about what can be searched e.g. |
Default text retained from the previous iteration design. |
Confirmation Dialogue/ Message |
A Confirmation Dialogue window appears after these three user actions:
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A Confirmation message appears for a short duration and fades away. |
Retained from the previous design iteration. |
Completing a task takes user back to ... ? |
Completing a task such as "Adding a friend" or "Creating an event" or "Checking notification and accepting/declining an invitation" takes a user back to home page. |
Completing a task takes user back to the relevant pop up menu. |
Retained from the previous iteration. |
Event page |
Contains fields for data entry for:
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Simplified and now contains fewer data entry fields.
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A new options is added, to specify if the event is closed or not. |
Setting time of Event |
Time is by default set to one hour later and can be changed using the numeric keypad |
Taping on "Start Time" field displays a Ticker. |
Start time is by default set to one hour later, and has the affordance of a click/tap, and when tapped will bring up the ticker. |
Time zone in Create Event page. |
For consistency with other smart phone application "Time zone" field is there in "Create Event" page. It is by default set the user's current time zone and is un-editable. |
Time zone field is dropped |
Time zone field is dropped |
Setting location of Event. |
Location can be typed in or selected on map |
Location can only be selected on map. |
The "Location" field in "Create event" page has affordance of tapping, and tapping it will bring out the map view. this map contains a point for all the friends listed in "Participants" field and 3 pins drops from the top on suggested buildings. |
RSVP work flow - View Event Details and Send RSVP |
A button on View Event Details page takes user to a separate Send RSVP page. which then contains three options "Accept" "Decline" "propose Changes". |
Event details and RSVP response buttons are on the same simplified page. |
Page design retained from the previous iteration. |